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European satellite blasts off to provide new color view of Earth
2015-06-23 06:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: An unmanned Vega rocket blasted off from French Guiana on Monday to put a sophisticated Earth-watching satellite into orbit, a European Space Agency webcast showed. Flying for the fifth time, the four-stage Vega rocket, lifted off at 9:52 p.m. EDT (0152 GMT) carrying Europes Sentinel-2A satellite, the newest member of the multibillion-euro Copernicus Earth-observation project. From its orbital perch 488 miles (786 km) above Earth, Sentinel-2A is designed to take high-resolution, color and infrared...
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