Tech Desk
Sep 05, 2024
Europe's Arianespace recently launched the last Vega rocket. The Sentinel-2C satellite is positioned in orbit in the European Union's Copernicus programme to diligently observe Earth’s environment.
It’s a sleek single-body rocket, smaller in size with no boosters tied to its edges, which is striped into the night sky at a launch base and illuminates in French Guiana at 10.50 p.m. local time on Sept 4
One of the most significant highlights that came into the light is that it ended a prolonged 12-year career for a small launch vehicle, crafted by Italy’s Avio.
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Now, it has been substituted by the latest Vega C, which is all set to return to service in the last quarter of the year after facing a landing failure with the loss of two robust imaging satellites back in December 2022.
It was developed by Airbus Defence & Space, and now Sentinel-2A will be superseded by Sentinel-2C.
European Commission’s Copernicus unit head said that it would play a pivotal role in studying deforestation, and residential development including floods, volcanic blasts, and more.
Copernicus is substantially the world’s largest environment monitoring efforts, according to European Space Agency.
The six families of Sentinel satellites would participate in a program to read the planet's” vital signs,” such as land and ocean temperatures, Carbon dioxide CO2, and more.
