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  • Copernicus Sentinel-6 measuring sea levels using radar altimetry

    Copernicus Sentinel-6 measuring sea levels using radar altimetry

    This November the newest member of the EU’s Copernicus programme, Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, will take to the heavens from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The satellite is named after NASA’s former Director of Earth Observation and is a radar altimetry mission to monitor sea-level rise, wave-height and windspeed.

    The mission is a collaboration between ESA, the European Commission, EUMETSAT, NASA and NOAA, with support from the French space agency CNES. It will continue a three-decade-long time-series of radar altimetry missions that started with the Topex-Poseidon mission and was then followed by the Jason missions.

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  • Measuring ESA’s IXV spaceplane

    Measuring ESA’s IXV spaceplane

    ESA’s Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle, IXV, is tilted and turned along and around all three axes at ESA’s Technical Centre, ESTEC, in the Netherlands to measure its centre of gravity and moments of inertia, because both influence its flying characteristics.

    To be launched on Vega in early November 2014, IXV will flight-test the technologies and critical systems for Europe’s future automated reentry vehicles returning from low orbit.

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  • ESA Euronews: Measuring earth’s vital magnetic field

    ESA Euronews: Measuring earth’s vital magnetic field

    Earth’s magnetosphere is an invisible shield, protecting our planet from harmful solar radiation.

    Many living organisms – from bacteria to insects or birds – seem to rely on Earth’s magnetic field to navigate. Man has been doing so for a thousand years since the invention of the compass.

    But research shows the magnetic field is weakening and scientists are trying to understand why.

    Some believe it signals a pole reversal in progress, not an uncommon phenomenon in the history of our planet.

    As ground observatories fail to grasp the whole picture, we are sending magnetometers into orbit to try to measure the magnitude and the direction of the magnetic field.

    Find out more, this week, in Space.