🛰️ From fit-check to liftoff: a launch campaign in under three minutes 🚀 Copernicus EU Sentinel-2C is already delivering great images from orbit, but here's how the Earth observation satellite was prepared for liftoff on the final first-generation Vega rocket. 🔗 https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2024/09/Sentinel-2C_to_Vega_and_orbit_fit-check_to_liftoff_timelapse | ESA - European Space Agency

We like big antennas and we cannot lie! 😉 Here's an animation of how the massive 12 m long radar antenna aboard Copernicus EU #Sentinel-1C will unfold once in space. Sentinel-1C will be the third Sentinel-1 satellite placed in orbit, following Sentinel-1A and -1B 👉 http://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-1/Europe_s_next_radar_Sentinel_unfolds | ESA - European Space Agency