Airbus: Sentinel-5 Precursor joins its launch site.
(CercleFinance.com) - Airbus has announced that Europe's pollution monitoring satellite Sentinel-5 Precursor has left Airbus' Stevenage site and is on its way to the launch site, the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia.
The launch is currently planned on 9 October on a Rockot rocket.
Sentinel-5 Precursor will enable the continual acquisition of specific observation data of the Earth and will provide services to improve environmental management, understand and reduce the effects of climatic change and guarantee civil security.
Sentinel-5 Precursor will provide essential atmospheric chemistry data to the Copernicus program before the Sentinel-5 instrument becomes operational in 2021 on the MetOp Second Generation satellite.
Copyright (c) 2017 CercleFinance.com. All rights reserved.
The launch is currently planned on 9 October on a Rockot rocket.
Sentinel-5 Precursor will enable the continual acquisition of specific observation data of the Earth and will provide services to improve environmental management, understand and reduce the effects of climatic change and guarantee civil security.
Sentinel-5 Precursor will provide essential atmospheric chemistry data to the Copernicus program before the Sentinel-5 instrument becomes operational in 2021 on the MetOp Second Generation satellite.
Copyright (c) 2017 CercleFinance.com. All rights reserved.