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Launch Alert: Next-Gen Environment Satellite Aims For Space
Just in case you aren’t already in French Guiana, here’s your chance to watch a European environment radar satellite take a rocket ride. Tune into the webcast above to see Sentinel-1A’s launch. If the schedule holds, the launch will be at 5:02 p.m. EDT (9:02 p.m. UTC) on April 3, 2014.
ESA heralds Sentinel-1 as a “new era in Earth observation” because the satellite duo (yes, it will be eventually two satellites) will vastly improve their ability to send out information on natural disasters and quick-moving Earth observation events. Sentinel-1 will in fact be the first of a satellite series feeding into the same information system.
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© Elizabeth Howell for Universe Today, 2014. |
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/110927/launch-alert-watch-live-as-next-gen-environment-satellite-aims-for-space/
