Seventh EU Sentinel goes into orbit

The European Union has launched its latest Sentinel Earth observation spacecraft.

Sentinel-3b is a multipurpose satellite, but will concentrate much of its work over the oceans, monitoring their behaviour and health.

The spacecraft went up on a converted intercontinental ballistic missile from Russia’s Plesetsk Cosmodrome.

It will join an identical platform, Sentinel-3a, which was sent into orbit two years

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