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[ad_1] SpaceX made history after sending a rocket to space carrying the first-ever satellite tasked with conducting a global survey of Earth’s surface waters. A SpaceX rocket has launched a U.S.-French satellite to conduct a first-of-its-kind global survey of Earth's surface waters. The mission is designed to highlight the consequences of climate change on large water bodies. The booster rocket, called Falcon 9, is owned and operated by Elon Musk's commercial rocket company SpaceX. The Falcon 9 booster carrying the satellite reached Earth's orbit in just 9 minutes. The mission's payload, the Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite (SWOT) was released to its starting orbit about 530 miles (850 km) above the planet less than an hour after launch. The centerpiece of the satel...

[ad_1] A Franco-US satellite is due for launch this week on a mission to survey with unprecedented accuracy nearly all water on Earth's surface for the first time and help scientists investigate its impact on Earth's climate. For NASA and France's space agency CNES, which have worked together in the field for 30 years, it's a landmark scientific mission with a billion dollar budget. French President Emmanuel Macron went to NASA's Washington headquarters at the end of November alongside US Vice President Kamala Harris. He highlighted the liftoff -- scheduled for early Thursday on the US west coast -- of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission to monitor the levels of oceans, lakes and rivers, including in remote locations. Its predecessor, TOPEX/Poseidon, launched ...

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Historic! SpaceX rocket sends first-ever Earth water survey mission to space

In a first, Franco-US satellite set for survey of Earth’s water