Vega | Sentinel-2B
Arianespace · Vega · Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV), Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Arianespace's 254th launch · 3rd this year · humanity's 5,629th orbital launch attempt
March 7, 2017Add to calendar
Success
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Window: Mar 7, 01:49 – Mar 7, 01:49 UTC
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Sentinel-2A
Sentinel-2 is the second mission for Europe’s Copernicus environment monitoring programme. It's a satellite constellation of two identical spacecrafts, Sentinel-2A and -2B. Both carry an innovative wide swath high-resolution multispectral imager with 13 spectral bands for a new perspective of our land and vegetation.
Earth Science · Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)
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- Arianespace Flight VV09 / Sentinel-2B — arianespace
- Flight VV09 – Sentinel-2B | Vega Launch | Arianespace — arianespace
- Sentinel-2B liftoff — European Space Agency, ESA
- Arianespace has successfully launched the Sentinel-2B — arianespace
- Flight VV09 | Vega Best of Liftoff | Arianespace — arianespace
