Name satellite | Sentinel-1A, Sentinel-1B |
Country | Italy |
Developer | Thales Alenia Space Italy, Airbus Defence and Space |
Operator | ESA |
Launch date | Union-2 (Russia) |
Launch date | 03.04.2014 (Sentinel-1A), 26.04.2016 (Sentinel-1B) |
Launching pad | Kuru spaceport |
Orbit: height, km inclination, degree | Sun-synchronous 693 98.1 |
Period of active existence, years | 7 |
Follow-up period, day | 1-3 |
Power, W | 5300 |
The size of spacecraft, m×m×m | 3,9 х 2,6 х 2,5 |
Mass, kg | 2280 |
Name of shooting equipment | Synthetic Aperture Radar (C-band) |
Polarization | Single (HH or VV) |
Transfer rate, Mbit/sec | 520 |
The volume of onboard memory, GB | 1410 |
Shooting mode | Spatial resolution (range x azimuth), m x m | Shooting bandwidth, km |
Strip Map Mode | 5х5 | 80 |
Interferometric Wide Swath | 5х20 | 250 |
Extra-Wide Swath Mode | 25х100 | 4 |
Wave-Mode | 5х20 | 20х20 |