Sentinel-6a

This handout image taken on July 17, 2020, and released by The European Space Agency (ESA) on Nov 19, 2020, shows the Sentinel-6 satellite, dedicated to measuring sea levels as part of the European Union’s Copernicus Earth Observation. The Sentinel-6 satellite, which will measure sea levels, is scheduled for launch on Saturday (Nov 21) will continue with unparalleled precision an almost thirty-year mission, whose data are crucial for observing climate change at work on the seas the globe and predict its consequences for human activity. - AFP
Climate Change

Satellite to track rising seas as climate warms

Sentinel-6a will be the first of two identical satellites that will provide measurements of unprecedented precision mapping 95 percent of Earth’s ice-free ocean every ten days until at least 2030