📆 🚀 • Calendars out: we share today the details of #Arianespace's next mission! #SaveTheDate ➡ On September 3, 2024 (Kourou time), Arianespace will launch Sentinel-2C 🛰, a #Copernicus satellite for the European Commission within the scope of a contract signed with the European Space Agency - ESA. ➡ This mission serves the #EarthObservation component of the European Union’s #Space Program, providing crucial environmental data for the planet 🌍 , while also carrying out Arianespace’s commitment of guaranteeing #Europe’s independent #AccessToSpace. ➡ This flight (#VV24) will use the final #Vega launcher, marking the transition to the Vega C launcher, which is scheduled to return to flight by the end of 2024. 📜 Read the full press release giving all the information and exact ⏰ times via the link in the first comment below ⤵. 📷: Copernicus Sentinel-2C satellite being removed from its container in the clean room at Europe's Space Port in Kourou, French Guiana, end July 2024. ArianeGroup, AVIO, ARIANESPACE #EUSpace #DestinationSpace #Environment #Sustainability
The launch of Sentinel-2C means more #optical terminals will be placed in #orbit, and the satellite's image data will be transmitted via Airbus' laser-based SpaceDataHighway (EDRS).
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