# MSI (MultiSpectral Instrument)
*sensor . products*

High-resolution multispectral pushbroom imager and sole payload of the Sentinel-2 satellite series. 13 discrete bands across visible to shortwave infrared, 10/20/60 m native GSD per band group. Not an imaging spectrometer.

## Specifications
- **product status**: operational
- **manufacturer**: airbus-ds
- **sensor**: {"instrument_family":"passive-optical","measurement_principle":"passive","spectral_range_nm":{"min":443,"max":2202},"spectral_band_count":13,"gsd_m":{"native":10},"swath_km":290,"bit_depth":12}
- **last verified date**: "2026-05-17T00:00:00.000Z"
- **verified by**: agency-doc
- **claim status**: agency-verified
- **deployment context**: orbital

## Compositional position
- sentinel-2a (missions) --[mission_payloads]--> MSI (MultiSpectral Instrument)

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Source: https://eo-atlas.org/products/sensor/msi
Maintainer: SpectraWorks B.V. (CC-BY 4.0)