New sea-level monitoring satellite goes live

Paris (ESA) Jun 22, 2021

Following liftoff last November and more than six months spent carefully calibrating the most advanced mission dedicated to measuring sea-level rise, Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich is now operational - meaning that its data are available to climate researchers, ocean-weather forecasts and other data users. Sentinel-6 is one of the European Union's family of Copernicus missions but