Sentinel-3C displayed at cleanroom in Cannes

Three Earth observation satellites developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) have completed their functional and environmental tests and are ready to travel to the European spaceport in French Guiana.

Here, the next satellite in the EU’s Copernicus programme, Sentinel-3C, is on show at a media event hosted by Thales Alenia Space at their cleanrooms in Cannes, France. T

he Sentinel-3 mission captures operational data and provides services for near real time responses as well as for long term climate monitoring over Earth’s land surfaces, inland water, ice, oceans and atmosphere. It is part of the Copernicus fleet of satellites, which contributes altimetry data and optical imagery to the European Commission’s Copernicus Earth observation programme. Sentinel-3 is often considered as the ‘workhorse’ mission for Copernicus due to the breadth of data it provides, which ranges from altimetry to spectrometry and radiometry in infrared and thermal channels.

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