On June 23, 2015, the ESA-developed Sentinel-2A satellite was launched on a Vega rocket from the Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The device carrying a high-resolution optical payload will provide some great global images that have ever been delivered from space.

The images delivered will be part of Europe's Copernicus environmental monitoring program. The data will be used for agricultural and forestry practices. It will also help to manage different factors, including food security, monitor pollution in lakes and coastal waters.

Volker Liebig, Director of ESA's Earth Observation Programs said, "Sentinel-2 will enable us to provide data for the program's land monitoring services and will be the base for a wide spectrum of applications reaching from agriculture to forestry, environmental monitoring to urban planning".

Experts said the quality of the first images is beyond the level they have expected. The Multispectral Imager (MSI) on Sentinel-2A has 13 spectral brands that take land monitoring to altogether at a different level.

Last year, Sentinel-1A radar satellite was launched and this one is the second one for Europe's Copernicus program. It is a two-satellite mission and the latest one will provide optical imagery on a 5-day revisit cycle once Sentinel-B is launched in the second half of 2016.

It's been four days of its launch and Sentinel-2A satellite has already started second its first images back to earth. The sent images show individual buildings in Milan, agricultural plots along the Po River and ports along the southern French coast.