Monitoring sea levels, using this French constructed small orbiting craft — one of a pair, that will now be watching from above in low Earth orbit… is vital (despite the claims of the luddites/MAGA crowd — and their endlessly-unscientific poppycock, all designed to keep fossil fuel harvesting out of international regulators’ ways) — for all of humanity.
We may be otherwise disposed tomorrow night, but you may also catch a live-cast of the launch at this NASA link, Sunday night into the wee hours of Monday morning (depending on where in the US you tune in from):
…NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for Sentinel-6B, an international mission delivering critical sea level and ocean data to protect coastal infrastructure, improve weather forecasting, and support commercial activities at sea [Ed. Note: this political rewrite of the mission objectives… is a direct by-product of Trumpism — the mission will support global climate change monitoring efforts, and provide objective data — obviously].
Launch is targeted at 12:21 a.m. EST, Monday, Nov. 17 (9:21 p.m. PST, Sunday, Nov. 16) aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California….
Now you know (and lower image is from the July ESA launch success) — much busy-ness ahead, starting about midday Monday… smile.
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