Copernicus Sentinel-6 measuring sea levels using radar altimetry
Date: Fri, Oct 30, 2020 | 07:30 - 08:00 GMT | 08:30 - 09:00 CET
Replay: Fri, Oct 30, 2020 | 16:00 - 16:30 GMT | 17:00 - 17:30 CET
Type: ESA TV Exchange
This November the newest member of the EU’s Copernicus programme, Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, will take to the heavens from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The satellite is named after NASA’s former Director of Earth Observation and is a radar altimetry mission to monitor sea level rise, wave-height and windspeed.
The mission is a collaboration between ESA, the European Commission, EUMETSAT, NASA and NOAA, with support from the French space agency CNES. It will continue a three-decade-long time-series of radar altimetry missions that started with the Topex-Poseidon mission and was then followed by the Jason missions.
This VNR includes interviews with Craig Donlon, Sentinel-6 Mission Scientist, ESA and with Anny Cazenave, Senior Scientist, Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales (LEGOS), Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France
More information at: https://sentinel.esa.int/web/sentinel/missions/sentinel-6/overview
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https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2020/10/Copernicus_Sentinel-6_measuring_sea_levels_using_radar_altimetry