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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 - Earth Explorers
Mission - Earth Explorers
CryoSat
CryoSat determines variations in the thickness of continental ice sheets and marine ice cover. Europe's first ice mission is an advanced radar altimeter specifically designed to monitor the most dynamic sections of Earth's cryosphere.
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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 - Earth Explorers
Mission - Earth Explorers
Biomass
The objective of the Biomass mission is to determine the global distribution of forest biomass.
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Mission - Third Party Missions
Mission - Third Party Missions
TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X
The TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X satellites feature a unique geometric accuracy that is unmatched by any other spaceborne sensor.
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Mission - Third Party Missions
Mission - Third Party Missions
RADARSAT
The RADARSAT programme consists of a pair of remote sensing satellites from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).
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Mission - Third Party Missions
Mission - Third Party Missions
ICEYE
The ICEYE constellation consists of three X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites.
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Mission - Heritage Missions, Third Party Missions
Mission - Heritage Missions, Third Party Missions
SeaSat
On board SeaSat was the first-ever space-borne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system for science applications.
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Mission - Heritage Missions, Third Party Missions
Mission - Heritage Missions, Third Party Missions
JERS-1
The overall objectives of JERS-1 were the generation of global data sets with SAR and OPS sensors aimed at surveying resources, establishing an integrated Earth observation system
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Mission - Third Party Missions
Mission - Third Party Missions
COSMO-SkyMed
COSMO-SkyMed is an Italian Earth-imaging constellation consisting of four identical satellites which launched between 2007 and 2010.