Sentinel-5P Successfully Launched To Monitor World’s Pollution

An artist’s conception of the Sentinel-5P pollution monitoring satellite. Image courtesy of the European Space Agency (ESA). The Airbus-built pollution monitoring satellite Sentinel-5 Precursor has been successfully launched on a Rockot from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia at 09.27 GMT on Friday, October 13, 2017. Sentinel-5 Precursor is part of the Copernicus global monitoring programme,...