WASHINGTON (NASA PR) — NASA has chosen House Exploration Applied sciences (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to offer launch companies for the Sentinel-6B mission. Sentinel-6B will proceed the long-term international sea degree information report begun in 1992 by Topex/Poseidon adopted by Jason 1, 2, 3, and Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich. The mission is a partnership between NASA, the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, ESA (European House Company), and the European Group for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites.
It is a agency mounted worth contract with a worth of roughly $94 million, which incorporates launch companies and different mission associated prices. The Sentinel-6B mission at the moment is focused to launch November 2025, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from House Launch Complicated 4E at Vandenberg House Drive Base in California.
Sentinel-6B will use a radar altimeter to bounce indicators off the ocean floor and ship continuity of ocean topography measurements. The mission additionally will accumulate high-resolution vertical profiles of temperature, utilizing the World Navigation Satellite tv for pc System Radio-Occultation sounding approach, to evaluate temperature adjustments in Earth’s environment and enhance climate prediction fashions.
NASA’s Launch Companies Program on the Kennedy House Middle in Florida is chargeable for program administration of the SpaceX launch companies. The Sentinel-6B mission workplace is situated at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
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