New satellite to image the Earth and strengthen Europe’s Copernicus programme

The third satellite in the Copernicus Sentinel 2 mission, Sentinel-2C will generate valuable images and data to help respond to natural disasters, monitor pollution and inform action on climate change. The Sentinels are a fleet of satellites that look down on the planet and gather vast quantities of data (over 34 million gigabytes so far) that feeds into Copernicus, Europe’s Earth observation programme. More

(Source: GOV.UK - Sep 6)