NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Sentinel 1A

Launch Time
Thu Apr 03, 2014 21:02 UTC

First flight of Soyuz ST-A/Fregat-M. Flight VS07.

Rocket

Soyuz ST-A/Fregat-M
Image Credit: ESA
Arianespace
Status: Active
Price: $30.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 4,317 kN
Payload to LEO: 8,500 kg
Payload to GTO: 3,000 kg
Stages: 4
Strap-ons: 4
Rocket Height: 46.94 m
Fairing Diameter: 4.11 m
Fairing Height: 11.43 m

Mission Details

Sentinel 1A

The Sentinel-1 satellite is part of the GMES program - Global Monitoring for Environment and Security - a set of Earth observation missions co-funded by ESA and the European Commission. GMES represents the European answer to the ever-increasing requirements of environmental control, and thus provides an important contribution to environmental policies at a global level.

As prime contractor, Thales Alenia Space Italy is responsible for the design, development, and integration of the satellite that will carry a C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). The radar will be based on Thales Alenia Space's key technologies such as the Transmit-Receive modules inside the active antenna.

Based on a Prima platform, developed by Thales Alenia Space for the Italian Space Agency, Sentinel-1 will weigh 2,280 kilograms at launch and will look at the Earth in swaths up to 700 kilometers with a ground resolution of between 5 and 25 meters according to the selected operative mode.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 2,272.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Location

ELS, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana, France

Stats

2014

16th orbital launch attempt

Arianespace

213th mission
3rd mission of 2014
206th successful mission
69th consecutive successful mission

Soyuz 2.1a

16th mission
1st mission of 2014
15th successful mission
12th consecutive successful mission