Sentinel-1 Archives - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com Covering the business and politics of space Fri, 06 Dec 2024 09:10:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://spacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cropped-SN_forza_star-32x32.png Sentinel-1 Archives - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com 32 32 80681979 Vega C successfully returns to flight https://spacenews.com/vega-c-successfully-returns-to-flight/ https://spacenews.com/vega-c-successfully-returns-to-flight/#respond Fri, 06 Dec 2024 09:10:14 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=509777 Vega C
Vega C

A Vega C successfully launched an Earth observation satellite Dec. 5 in the rocket’s first flight since a failure nearly two years ago.

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]]> https://spacenews.com/vega-c-successfully-returns-to-flight/feed/ 0 509777 Vega C return to flight slips a day https://spacenews.com/vega-c-return-to-flight-slips-a-day/ https://spacenews.com/vega-c-return-to-flight-slips-a-day/#respond Wed, 27 Nov 2024 20:38:03 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=509451 Sentinel 1C payload adapter
Sentinel 1C payload adapter

European officials say the Vega C rocket is ready for its return to flight next week despite a technical issue that will delay the launch of an Earth science satellite by at least a day.

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]]> https://spacenews.com/vega-c-return-to-flight-slips-a-day/feed/ 0 509451 Europe considers launching Copernicus satellite on Falcon 9 https://spacenews.com/europe-considers-launching-copernicus-satellite-on-falcon-9/ https://spacenews.com/europe-considers-launching-copernicus-satellite-on-falcon-9/#respond Fri, 12 Jan 2024 09:57:18 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=227501 Sentinel-1C
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Europe may shift the launch of a Copernicus Earth observation satellite to SpaceX’s Falcon 9 to avoid further delays in getting it into orbit.

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Vega C

The European Space Agency will launch its Sentinel-1C radar imaging satellite on a Vega C rocket in 2023 as the agency continues to study potential impacts of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on that launch vehicle.

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]]> 126506 Europe’s Copernicus enters hunt for missing EgyptAir flight https://spacenews.com/europes-copernicus-enters-hunt-for-missing-egyptair-flight/ Fri, 20 May 2016 12:15:38 +0000 http://dev.spacenews.com/?p=60292

The European Space Agency on May 20 produced a radar satellite image of a 2-kilometer-long oil slick in the eastern Mediterranean Sea that ESA officials say could be from the missing EgyptAir MS804, which disappeared on May 19.

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