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Replay of the Sentinel-3A launch event at ESA’s European Space Operations Centre in Germany on 16 February 2016.
During the event, ESA and European experts highlighted the goals for the Sentinel-3 mission and for Europe’s Copernicus environment monitoring programme. The event also included live feeds from the Main Control Room and from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia – from where the Sentinel-3A satellite was launched.