{"id":230263,"date":"2025-10-28T14:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/230263\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T14:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:48:09","slug":"watch-live-sentinel-1d-launch-on-ariane-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/230263\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch live: Sentinel-1D launch on Ariane 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tApplications<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t28\/10\/2025<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t457 views<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t12 likes<\/p>\n<p>The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission is about to get its fourth satellite, with Sentinel-1D now ready for liftoff. Launch will take place with an Ariane 6 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana and live coverage will be shown on Tuesday, 4 November, at 22:02 CET (18:02 at Kourou).<\/p>\n<p>Watch live on <a href=\"https:\/\/watch.esa.int\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ESA Web TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the launch live on Tuesday, 4 November 2025 (all times in CET)<\/p>\n<p>21:15 \u2013 Broadcast begins<\/p>\n<p>21:35 \u2013 Streaming from Kourou<\/p>\n<p>21:38 \u2013 Introductions, interviews and mission status updates<\/p>\n<p>22:02 \u2013 Liftoff and live commentary<\/p>\n<p>23:22 \u2013 Acquisition of signal<\/p>\n<p>23:30 \u2013 Press conference<\/p>\n<p>00:15 \u2013 End of press conference and streaming<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2024\/06\/Sentinel-1_patch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sentinel-1 patch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a name=\"eztoc26945324_0_0_0_1\" id=\"eztoc26945324_0_0_0_1\"\/>About the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission<\/p>\n<p>The Sentinel-1 mission delivers radar images of Earth\u2019s surface, performing in all weathers, day-and-night. This service is vital for disaster response teams, environmental agencies, maritime authorities, climate scientists \u2013 and other users who depend on frequent updates of critical data.<\/p>\n<p>The mission is part of the Copernicus family of Sentinel satellites, developed by the European Space Agency (ESA). Copernicus is the Earth observation component of the European Union\u2019s Space Programme. It supports the EU in contributing to solutions to address common global challenges.<\/p>\n<p>The data provided by the Sentinel missions form the basis of the operational Copernicus information services, helping to manage the environment, monitor and react to climate change and safeguard lives. The Copernicus data policy provides full, open and free-of-charge access to data and information.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2025\/10\/Sentinel-1D_fuelled_in_Kourou\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sentinel-1D fuelled in Kourou<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a name=\"eztoc26945333_0_0_0_1\" id=\"eztoc26945333_0_0_0_1\"\/>Cutting-edge technology for enhanced data<\/p>\n<p>Sentinel-1D is the mission\u2019s next satellite and is set to join its sibling, Sentinel-1C. When fully commissioned, it will substitute Sentinel-1A, which has been in orbit for 11 years, well beyond its planned lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>The Sentinel-1D satellite will work in tandem with Sentinel-1C to generate timely data. Both satellites have a C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) instrument on board, which captures high-resolution imagery of Earth\u2019s surface. They are also equipped with Automatic Identification System (AIS) instruments to improve detection and tracking of ships. When both are operational, more frequent AIS observations are possible. Sentinel-1D is also compatible with the Galileo navigation system, as well as other Global Navigation Satellite Systems.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"eztoc26945333_0_0_0_2\" id=\"eztoc26945333_0_0_0_2\"\/>About Ariane 6<\/p>\n<p>Ariane 6 is Europe\u2019s heavy launcher and a key element of ESA\u2019s efforts to ensure autonomous access to space for Europe\u2019s citizens. Its modular and versatile design allows it to launch missions into low-Earth orbit as well as those destined to go much further into deep space. Standing more than 60 metres tall, Ariane 6 can weigh almost 900 tonnes when launched with a full payload.<\/p>\n<p>Like<\/p>\n<p id=\"ezsr_just_rated_26945409\" class=\"ezsr-just-rated hide\">Thank you for liking<\/p>\n<p id=\"ezsr_has_rated_26945409\" class=\"ezsr-has-rated hide\">You have already liked this page, you can only like it once!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Applications 28\/10\/2025 457 views 12 likes The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission is about to get its fourth satellite, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-230263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}