🚀State space corporation ROSCOSMOS |ROSCOSMOS. ROCKOT LAUNCHER LIFTS OFF FROM PLESETSK
25, 2018, 18:23 GMT
The second Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite, Sentinel-3B, lifted off on a Rockot from the PLESETSK Cosmodrome in northern Russia at 20:57 MT (19:57 CEST) on 25 April 2018.
Sentinel-3B joins its twin, Sentinel-3A, in orbit. The pairing of identical satellites provides the best coverage and data delivery for Europe’s Copernicus programme.
The Sentinel-3 mission is essential for applications for ocean and coastal monitoring, numerical weather and ocean prediction, sea-level change and sea-surface topography monitoring, ocean primary production estimation and land-cover change mapping.