Europe Expands New Weather Monitoring Constellation

launch of european Weather Monitoring Constellation

The new spacecraft launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral.

Credit: SpaceX
Europe has added to its weather monitoring and Earth-observation capacity with the launch of the MTG-S1 satellite and the Sentinel-4 instrument. The launch took place at 5:04 pm ET July 1 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from the Kennedy Space Center. Satellite deployment occured 35 min later. The spacecraft is...
Robert Wall

Robert Wall is Executive Editor for Defense and Space. Based in London, he directs a team of military and space journalists across the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific.

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