Sentinel-6 C Mission

Objectives and Applications

Sentinel-6 provides precision sea level, sea surface height, significant wave height, inland water heights and other products tailored to operational services in the ocean, climate, atmospheric and land Copernicus Services. It also provides enhanced continuity to the very stable time series of mean sea level measurements and ocean sea state after Jason-3.

Mission Summary

Full Name
Sentinel-6 C
Mission Status
Planned
Mission Agencies
Launch Date
2040
Mission Links
EOL Date
2046
EO Portal Info

Orbit Details

Orbit Type
Inclined, non-sun-synchronous
Orbit Period
112.4 minutes
Orbit Sense
N/A
Orbit Inclination
66.05 deg
Orbit Altitude
1343 km
Orbit Longitude
Orbit LST
Repeat Cycle
10 days
NORAD Catalog #
International Designator

Mission Instruments

AMR-C - Advanced Microwave Radiometer for Climate
DGXX-S - Doppler Orbitography and Radio-positioning Integrated by Satellite-New Generation XX-S
GNSS POD Receiver - Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) Precise Orbit Determination (POD) Receiver
GNSS-RO Receiver - Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)- Radio Occultation (RO) Receiver
LRA (Sentinel-6) - Laser Retroreflector Array (Sentinel-6)
Poseidon-4 Altimeter - Poseidon-4 SAR Radar Altimeter

Mission Measurements

CategoryParameterInstrument(s)
AtmosphereAerosols GNSS POD Receiver
Atmospheric Humidity Fields AMR-C, GNSS-RO Receiver
Atmospheric Temperature Fields GNSS POD Receiver, GNSS-RO Receiver
Gravity and Magnetic FieldsGravity, Magnetic and Geodynamic measurements GNSS POD Receiver, LRA (Sentinel-6), Poseidon-4 Altimeter
LandLandscape topography Poseidon-4 Altimeter
OceanOcean topography/currents AMR-C, Poseidon-4 Altimeter
Ocean surface winds Poseidon-4 Altimeter
Ocean wave height and spectrum Poseidon-4 Altimeter

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