Europe launches fourth Earth monitoring satellite
AFP
| 2017/03/07 | 339 words
| LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | SPACE
Europe launched a fourth satellite Tuesday for its Copernicus Earth-monitoring project to track changes in forest cover and air pollution, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced.The 1.1-tonne, "colour-vision" Sentinel-2B satellite blasted off on a Vega rocket from Europe's space port in Kourou, French Guiana, overnight, and was successfully placed in Earth orbit, it said.In about three days, controllers will start calibrating instruments to commission the satellite, which is to start oper...(…)
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