Thursday, June 11, 2020

SpaceX Planning New Launch From Vandenberg

Hawthorne-based SpaceX is planning a new launch of a payload from Vandenberg Air Force Base, just north of Lompoc, the first since June of 2019. According to NASA, it will be launching a new, international ocean measurement satellite, Sentinel-6. NASA said that Sentinel-6 will collect data on ea level, a key indicator of how Earth's warming climate affects weather and coastlines. SpaceX's last launch in Vandenberg was a set of three earth observation satellites for the Government of Canada.

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