A week after SpaceX launched its first operational crewed flight to the ISS, the company launched the first of two satellites in order to monitor sea level rise over the next decades. The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, named in honor of Earth scientist Michael Freilich, who retired in 2019 as head of NASA’s Earth Science division will also collect information on atmospheric temperature and humidity to improve weather forecasts and climate models. A second spacecraft identical to Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, Sentinel-6B, will launch in 2025 to continue the work after its sibling's five-and-a-half-year prime mission ends.



Credits:
NASA
SpaceX

Music:
Jan-Willem van Aalst

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