Less than a week after its launch, the Copernicus Sentinel-1C satellite has delivered its first radar images of Earth—offering a glimpse into its capabilities for environmental monitoring.
Looking somewhat like a cheese-grater, this specialist spacecraft pictures the Earth's surface using radar. The beauty of this technology is that it detects the ground even when there is thick ...
[Photo/Xinhua] China launched four Earth-observation radar satellites into space early on Tuesday morning, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. The State-owned contractor said ...
The company's radar satellites are now returning sub-1m resolution images of the Earth's surface. This level of performance is expected from traditional spacecraft that weigh a tonne or more and ...
In the coming weeks, the spacecraft will be manoeuvred into its final orbit 700km above the Earth, with the aim of ... after controllers switched on the radar instrument. It has been coloured ...