US-European satellite to track world's water

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 19, 2021

An international team of engineers and technicians has finished assembling a next-generation satellite that will make the first global survey of Earth's surface water and study fine-scale ocean currents. The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission is just a year out from launch, and the final set of tests on the spacecraft have started. SWOT is a collaboration between NASA and th