Successful launch of SENTINEL-3B satellite
May 10, 2018
The second Sentinel-3 satellite, Copernicus Sentinel-3B, was successfully launched into space on 25 April 2018 from Plesetsk, Russia. Sentinel-3B joins Sentinel-3A in orbit, thus increasing coverage and data delivery for the European Union’s Copernicus Earth Observation programme. Sentinel-3B carries the medium-resolution Ocean and Land Color Instrument (OLCI) which will provide multi-spectral data with a ground resolution of up to 300 meters per pixel and a swath width of 1,270 km, primarily dedicated to monitoring the world’s oceans as well as land cover.
