The Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission (SWOT) will help scientists monitor Earth’s ocean, as well as the amount of freshwater in its lakes and rivers when it launches in late 2022.
After engineers put together the spacecraft's
payload of scientific instruments at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in
Southern California, the satellite now moves to Cannes, France, to complete
integration before it will be launched in late 2022. Project manager Parag Vaze
explains.
SWOT is a collaboration between NASA and the
French space agency Centre National d’Etudes Spatial (CNES), with contributions
from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and United Kingdom Space Agency (UKSA).
To learn more about the mission, visit: https://swot.jpl.nasa.gov/
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Source: Water-Monitoring Satellite
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