https://spacewatch.global/tag/sentinel-6b/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Thu, 22 Dec 2022 07:00:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/sentinel-6b/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2022/12/nasa-awards-spacex-launch-services-contract-for-sentinel-6b/ Thu, 22 Dec 2022 07:00:48 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=45603 NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) to provide launch services for the Sentinel-6B mission. Sentinel-6B will continue the long-term global sea level data record begun in 1992 by Topex/Poseidon, followed by Jason 1, 2, 3, and Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich. The mission is a partnership between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT).]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/05/airbus-sentinel-6a-gets-an-earful/ Fri, 08 May 2020 05:00:48 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=22308 Earth observation satellite Sentinel-6A is currently getting an earful.Airbus space engineers are ‘bombarding’ the latest satellite for the European environment and security programme ‘Copernicus’ with sound in a dedicated chamber at the Space Test Centre of Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgesellschaft mbH (IABG) in Ottobrunn, near Munich.]]>