Questions tagged [sentinel-spacecraft]
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Sentinel-2C and frequency of acquisition
Sentinel-2C, the third Sentinel-2 satellite of the Copernicus program, is planned to be launched in 2024.
Currently, the Copernicus SENTINEL-2 mission "comprises a constellation of two polar-...
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Time of satellite passing overhead
Curious lay person here...
I download and analyze Sentinel-2 imagery for a variety of mapping tasks. According to the Sentinel mission description webpage:
The Sentinel-2 mission orbit is sun-...
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Why can Cryosat's dual antenna "better discern steep slopes" of Antarctic ice than Sentinel-3?
The BBC's Climate change: Satellite fix safeguards Antarctic data explains that earlier problems of missing data near the coasts have been addressed, and though scientists are hopeful, there is ...
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How will the "fleet of small asteroid hunters" proposed by the B612 Foundation & York Space Systems work?
The June 2018 news item in Science To find small asteroids that could hit Earth, private foundation embraces small satellites says:
On 10 May, B612 announced a partnership with York Space Systems, a ...
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What is the parameter which stays constant at a location for downloading from Sentinel Copernicus Data?
The parameters orbitdirection, orbitnumber, platformname, productclass, producttype etc. seem to be not very useful in identifying a product in sentinel data.
I have a product targeting an area -
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What are the details required to automate the download of Data products of Sentinel - 1 from Copernicus SciHub?
I want to understand the file name and required parameters which describe a data product so that I can automate the download using the API provided by the Copernicus Sci-Hub.
What is the pipeline of ...
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What is the large circular device with a dozen concentric circles on Sentinel 3B?
The Spaceflight Now article Photos: Sentinel 3B satellite prepared for launch from Plesetsk Cosmodrome has of course lots of photos. One of them shows a dish antenna covered with shiny, metallized ...
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How will the corner cube retroreflector array be used on Sentinel 3B?
The Spaceflight Now article Photos: Sentinel 3B satellite prepared for launch from Plesetsk Cosmodrome has of course lots of photos. One of them shows a dish antenna covered with shiny, metallized ...
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Why is Sentinel 3B's dish antenna overwrapped with metallized film?
The Spaceflight Now article Photos: Sentinel 3B satellite prepared for launch from Plesetsk Cosmodrome has of course lots of photos. One of them shows a dish antenna covered with shiny, metallized ...
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