Wild report on damaged sea cables connecting #Svalbard to the mainland. Svalbard hosts ground stations for space agencies e.g. #Copernicus #ESA #Sentinel 🛰️
What the report doesn't mention is this:
• Sentinel-1B power failure: 23 Dec 2021
• Svalbard cables damaged: 7 Jan 2022
From the Sentinel-1 Mission Status Report 391:
"major anomaly on the Sentinel-1B satellite occurred on 23 December 2021"
Lot's of coincidences here 🤔
The #Sentinel1 constellation has two satellites up: 1A and 1B. Sentinel-1B is no longer working since that anomaly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinel-1B
Sentinel-1 is a synthetic aperture radar constellation, allowing for radar remote sensing day and night no matter if there are clouds or not.
@djh Tangentially, this might amuse you: https://gist.github.com/celoyd/150adc4fb6e3126f246da1b280840560
