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MISSIONS
Explore the European Space Agency's Earth Observation satellite missions. Learn all about ESA's dedicated Earth Explorers or collaborations with otheragencies through the Third Party Missions programme.
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Mission - Heritage Missions
Mission - Heritage Missions
ERS
The ERS programme was composed of two missions, ERS-1 and ERS-2, which together observed the Earth for 20 years, from 1991 to 2011.
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Mission - Copernicus Sentinels
Mission - Copernicus Sentinels
Copernicus Sentinel-1
The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission comprises a constellation of two polar-orbiting satellites, operating day and night performing C-band synthetic aperture radar imaging, enabling them to acquire imagery regardless of the weather.
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Mission - Third Party Missions
Mission - Third Party Missions
PAZ
The PAZ (Spanish for “peace”) satellite, operates as a constellation alongside TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X.
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Mission - Heritage Missions, Third Party Missions
Mission - Heritage Missions, Third Party Missions
Landsat Series
The Landsat series is the world's longest running system of satellites for moderate-resolution optical remote sensing for land, coastal areas and shallow waters.
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Mission - Heritage Missions, Third Party Missions
Mission - Heritage Missions, Third Party Missions
Landsat-4 and Landsat-5
The Landsat-4 and Landsat-5 missions continued the Landsat programme's goal of providing moderate-resolution optical remote sensing for land, coastal areas and shallow waters.
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Mission - Heritage Missions, Third Party Missions
Mission - Heritage Missions, Third Party Missions
Landsat-1 to Landsat-3
The Landsat-1 to 3 satellites were the first in the United States' Landsat programme, dedicated to monitoring the Earth's land mass.
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Mission - Heritage Missions, Third Party Missions
Mission - Heritage Missions, Third Party Missions
SPOT
The SPOT (from French "Satellite pour l'Observation de la Terre") series of missions has been supplying high-resolution, wide-area optical imagery since 1986.
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Mission - Heritage Missions, Third Party Missions
Mission - Heritage Missions, Third Party Missions
SPOT 7
SPOT 7 (Azersky), like all the SPOT missions, is aimed at supplying high-resolution, wide-area optical imagery.
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Mission - Third Party Missions
Mission - Third Party Missions
Landsat-8
Landsat-8 is an Earth-imaging satellite from NASA which launched in 2013. The Landsat programme provides a global archive of satellite imagery.
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Mission - Heritage Missions, Third Party Missions
Mission - Heritage Missions, Third Party Missions
Landsat-7
Landsat-7 was launched in 1999 and remains operational.