The preparations of ESA’s latest Earth observation satellite Sentinel-5P, also known as Sentinel-5 Precursor, are finished. The is now in Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia, ready for launch on 13 October 2017.
The Copernicus EU Sentinel-5P will ensure continued data gathering on Earth’s atmosphere and is the intermediary satellite to fill the gap between the past generation of atmospheric monitoring satellites and the future generation of Sentinel-4 and 5 which will be launched early in the next decade.
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http://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/Videos/2017/09/Sentinel-5P_presentationThe preparations of ESA’s latest Earth observation satellite Sentinel-5P, also known as Sentinel-5 Precursor, are finished, and the satellite has been shippe…