Launch of Sentinel 1B on Russian Soyuz STA Rocket

  • 8 years ago
A Russian Soyuz STA rocket has successfully launched from Kourou in French Guiana carrying for the European Space Agency the Sentinel 1B satellite at 21:02 UTC, April 25th 2016. Sentinel 1B is a radar imaging satellite as part of the Copernicus Programme providing autonomous earth monitoring.