LIVE: NASA to Launch of Ocean-Monitoring Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Satellite

(Nov. 20) Watch live as NASA holds a briefing ahead of Saturday’s launch of the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich spacecraft, which was designed to monitor the oceans on Earth, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020.

The satellite will be followed in 2025 by its twin, Sentinel-6B. Together, the pair is tasked with extending our nearly 30-year-long record of global sea surface height measurements. Instruments aboard the satellites will also provide atmospheric data that will improve weather forecasts, climate models, and hurricane tracking.

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[VelourYeti]

This is such a huge leap forward! The only thing that would make this better is a 2nd term!

[bingo]

God Bless NASA for helping to keep us all to keep an eye on our precious planet. We have a home here... now we have to simply do some housekeeping. 💗

[palecurve]

This needs nine ad rolls? Really, guys?

[viccamay]

The poor quality of the audio and the video in this presentation
are at a standard that I've come to expect from NASA in 2020.

[CryptoTaIk]

Finally they’re tryna find out what lives deep under the sea

[FACTSII]

My only goal in life is to push humanity torwards living in the final frontier. Competition between us is a distraction

[noworriesmate]

They what the SAY it’s going to be used

[Moriik]

Why isnt the news ancor wearing a mask?

[danman]

Lol what are these comments😂
Still in 2020😂

[DPS]

All this tech and still using chemical rockets! Your risk factor is always orders of magnitude with each launch.
Go big or go home. Where's our heavy lifting body reusable shuttle craft, Boo Boo?
...where your risks are actually known!

[bigguy]

Meanwhile NASA and SpaceX having hard time explaining to the astronauts the suction device for peeing is not a sexual device

[playzfahdayz]

Sin-loving God-haters are still deceived... *_sigh_*




Edit: Search "Astronauts Gone Wild Documentary"

[bigguy]

Sentinel 6 is a spy satellite but I like the title" ocean monitor"..🤔... It's definitely not going to be studying fish

[ConorMacLean]

Why can’t they track ocean levels from Earth’s surface?... Seems a bit dramatic doing it from “space”