As part of the European Copernicus programme, the Sentinel-1 mission, based on a constellation of two SAR satellites, ensures continuity of C-band SAR observations, building on ESA's and Canada's heritage on satellite SAR systems (ERS, ENVISAT and RADARSAT). Both satellites have been launched from Kourou on a Soyuz rocket, Sentinel-1A on 3rd April 2014, Sentinel-1B on 25 April 2016. Today, following the completion of the constellation operational qualification phase, the routine operations of the constellation are on-going, close to the full mission capacity.

The mission has already demonstrated its high potential in various applications domains (in particular in the InSAR based applications). The mission is characterised by large-scale, frequent and repetitive observations, systematic production and a free and open data distribution policy. Sentinel-1 plays a key role for ground deformation monitoring, at global level.

The oral presentation will give an overview of the mission status. It will briefly recall the main characteristics of the Sentinel-1 mission, describe the observation scenario and the system operations, incl. ground segment operational activities, as well as provide some user data access statistics.