Sentinel-1A
Success
APR 03201421:02:26 UTCSoyuz and its Fregat upper stage placed the first satellite of Europe's Copernicus environmental monitoring programme into a 693 km Sun-synchronous orbit. Sentinel-1A carries a C-band radar that images land and ocean day and night through cloud, continuing the radar observations of Envisat, which stopped working in 2012.
LIFTOFF
APR 03 201421:02:26 UTC
Success
launched from ELS Kourou
aboard Soyuz STA / Fregat VS-07 into LEO
Broadcast
Watch how the launch went
Payload
Sentinel-1A
Earth observation