Soyuz STA/Fregat | Sentinel-1B

Soyuz STA/Fregat | Sentinel-1B

Soyuz Launch Complex
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana

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Arianespace

Arianespace SA is a multinational company founded in 1980 as the world's first commercial launch service provider. It undertakes the production, operation, and marketing of the Ariane programme. Their vehicles launch exclusively from French Guiana in South America.

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Sentinel-1B

Sentinel-1 is a two satellite constellation for land and ocean monitoring. C-band imaging will provide an all-weather day-and-night supply of imagery for Copernicus user services. This is the second and last satellite launched of the pair.

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Soyuz STA Fregat


Height 46.30 Meters

Max Stages 3

Mass To GTO 2810 kg

Liftoff Thrust 0 kN

Diameter 2.95 Meters

Mass To LEO 7020 kg

Liftoff Mass 312 Tonnes


Launch Success 8

Consecutive Success 8

Maiden Flight 2011-12-17

Launch Failures 0


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Copernicus

Copernicus is the European Union's Earth observation programme coordinated and managed for the European Commission by the European Union Agency for the Space Programme in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA), the EU Member States. It aims at achieving a global, continuous, autonomous, high quality, wide range Earth observation capacity. Providing accurate, timely and easily accessible information to, among other things, improve the management of the environment, understand and mitigate the effects of climate change, and ensure civil security.

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