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Sentinel-2A celebrates five years of doing what it knows best: observing planet Earth

Built by Airbus, the Sentinel-2A satellite, from the Copernicus program, was launched on June 23, 2015 and since that time it has been providing high-resolution optical images for many services and applications, namely agricultural and forest management.

Together with its twin Sentinel-2B, launched about two years later, the Sentinel-2 mission has become the most used in the entire family of Copernicus satellites, accounting for over 60% of all ESA program downloads.

Both Sentinel-2 satellites feature an innovative high resolution multispectral image generator (MSI), also built by Airbus, which covers 13 spectral bands for detailed environmental recognition images.

The combination of high resolution, new spectral features, 290 km range coverage and frequent revisiting times offer unparalleled views of the Earth.

The constellation of two identical satellites in the same orbit, separated by 180, covers all terrestrial areas, large islands, inland and coastal waters every five days in Ecuador and every three days in central Europe.