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Does anyone know what happened to ESA’s Sentinel-1B? It has synthetic aperture radar, some pictures of Russian tanks massing at the border were published then
by zeristor 5y ago
Does anyone know what happened to ESA’s Sentinel-1B?
It has synthetic aperture radar, some pictures of Russian tanks massing at the border were published then it went off-line:
https://scihub.copernicus.eu/news/News00980 https://scihub.copernicus.eu/news/News00980
This is attributed to a power anomaly, and these things do happen.
Russia appears to have deployed its Krasukha-4 system in Ukraine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krasukha_(electronic_warfare_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krasukha_(electronic_warfare_s...
Sometimes things fail, and sometimes they’re broken. Whilst Sentinel-1B seems to have malfunctioned there are lots of small Earth Observation satellites, and indeed Starlink too.