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Sentinel satellites

Tuesday, February 28th, 2017

Sentinel-2B Satellite Ready for Launch from Kourou – Copernicus´ ‘Colour Vision’ Gets its Second Eye

Friedrichshafen – Sentinel-2B, Europe´s next Copernicus satellite is being readied by engineers from Airbus for a 7 March 2017 lift-off from Kourou, French Guiana. Sentinel-2B will be the fifth satellite of Europe’s environmental monitoring programme Copernicus to be launched. Copernicus is an operational programme led by the European Commission (EC) in partnership with the European