The Sentinel-3A operational oceanography satellite was launched on February 16 from Plesetsk, Russia, by a Rockot launch vehicle. Today, the Ocean and Land Color Instrument, or OLCI, one of the four instruments carried by the satellite, transmitted its first image!
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On February 22, 1986, exactly 30 years ago, France’s first civilian optical Earth observation satellite, Spot-1, financed by the French space agency CNES, was launched by an Ariane 1 rocket.
The countdown has started for the Sentinel-3A environmental monitoring satellite, which will be launched shortly from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia.
The flight model of the high-sensitivity ISA (Italian Spring Accelerometer) developed by Thales Alenia Space for BepiColombo, the European Space Agency’s first Mercury exploration mission, was recently delivered to the Italian space agency ASI.
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The first European part made in space by the additive manufacturing process, also known as 3D printing, took place on February 2, 2016, on the International Space Station.