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 by Staff Writers Beijing (XNA) Oct 23, 2017
The first satellite jointly developed by the Chinese and French space agencies will be launched from China in the second half of 2018. The China-French Oceanic Satellite is being tested in a Beijing-based assembly testing center of the China National Space Administration, said the administration Friday. The 700-kilogram satellite will be primarily used for waves forecast and monitoring, as well as research in floating ice, polar glacier and ocean dynamics. The satellite will carry a wave-scatterometer spectrometer developed by the French space agency and a wind-measurement scatterometer by Chinese scientists. It will be sent into space by a Chinese Long March carrier rocket. Source: Xinhua News
Sentinel-5P: satellite in excellent healthParis (ESA) Oct 17, 2017 Launched last week, Europe's Sentinel-5P satellite - the first Copernicus mission dedicated to monitoring the air we breathe - is in excellent health. The 820 kg satellite was lofted into orbit from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia last Friday on a Rockot. The satellite will use its state-of-the-art Tropomi instrument to monitor our atmosphere, mapping a multitude of gases ... read more Related Links China National Space Administration Earth Observation News - Suppiliers, Technology and Application
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