Professor Martin Wooster has been involved with the preparations for the forthcoming launch of the European Space Agencies first Sentinel-3 satellite, currently scheduled to take place from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia on 10th October 2015 via a Rokot launch vehicle, a redesigned Intercontinental Ballistic Missile and a true example of ‘swords into plough shears’ technology. The primary mission of the 1.25 tonne Sentinel-3 satellite is to provide highly accurate, regular and operationally available information about the state of Earth’s land and oceans, and also to some extent Earth’s atmosphere.
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