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Launch Date
11/21/2020
Launch Site
VS SLC4E
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Launch Vehicle
Falcon 9 FT5 (Falcon 9 Family)
ESA is responsible for the Sentinel-6 satellite, which is being built by Airbus Defence and Space.
The thermal insulation for Sentinel-6 was supplied by RUAG Space.
Airbus is the system and satellite prime for Sentinel-6 and is managing 32 companies from European industry on the project.
The Sentinel-6 launch is scheduled for 2020-11-10 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California aboard a Falcon 9 rocket.
RUAG Space provided thermal insulation that protects Sentinel-6 from temperature extremes of plus or minus 200 degrees Celsius in space.
The launch of Sentinel-6 was scheduled for 2020-11-10 from the Vandenberg launch site in California, USA aboard a Falcon 9 rocket.
Airbus is the system and satellite prime for Sentinel-6 and is managing 32 companies from European industries on the project.
GMV provides ground segment software infrastructure to EUMETSAT, including flight dynamics systems for the Metop, Metop-SG, Sentinel-3, Sentinel-6, and MTG satellites.
An external excerpt for the Sentinel-6 launch listed roadblocks at the corner of 13th Street and New Mexico, Floradale Ave. and W. Central Ave., and Floradale Ave. and W. Ocean Ave.
The additional 96,000,000 EUR will fund new tasks ESA is taking on, including development of the Sentinel-6 mission and the European Copernicus Data Access and Information Services.
The CRISTAL spacecraft has a mass of 1,700 kg and is based on an Airbus satellite design that builds on heritage from Sentinel-6 and CryoSat.
Thales Alenia Space participated in building the imaging spectrometer for Sentinel-5P and the altimeter radar Poseidon-4 for Sentinel-6.