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SENTINEL-2B
Multispectral Land Monitoring · ESA
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Sentinel-2B flies offset 180 degrees from Sentinel-2A — together achieving global land coverage every 5 days. Five days is fast enough to catch a spreading forest fire, a flooding river, or a glacier calving an iceberg. The combined archive is the world's most-downloaded free satellite dataset, used by hundreds of thousands of researchers and applications daily.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 492–493 mi (792–794 km)
- Inclination
- 98.6°
- One orbit
- 100.6 minutes14.3 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 42063
- Int’l designator
- 2017-013A
- Launched
- 2017
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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