NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Harmony

Launch Time
NET 2029

Rocket

Vega C
Arianespace
Status: Active
Liftoff Thrust: 4,500 kN
Payload to LEO: 2,300 kg
Stages: 4
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 35.0 m
Fairing Diameter: 3.3 m
Fairing Height: 9.0 m

Mission Details

Harmony

Harmony is ESA's 10th Earth Explorer mission. The two satellites will orbit Earth in tandem with a Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite, the configuration of which changes over the course of Harmony’s life in orbit.

In the various configurations, the Harmony satellites’ synthetic aperture radar instruments receive the Sentinel-1 radar signals that bounce back, or ‘backscatter’, from Earth’s surface. At the same time, Harmony’s thermal-infrared instruments provide complementary observations of the sea surface as well as the position and motion of clouds above it.

Payloads: 2
Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Location

ELV, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana, France