Sentinel-2C ready for transatlantic trip to farewell Vega launch
Top Stories Tamfitronics Sentinel-2C being loaded onto a Canopée cargo vessel for its trip across the Atlantic Ocean to a launchpad in French Guiana. Credit: AirbusTAMPA, Fla. — Sentinel-2C is ready to be shipped from Germany for a two-week trip across the Atlantic Ocean to the European spaceport in French Guiana, where Europe’s latest Earth science satellite is due to launch on the final flight of the original version of the Vega rocket.Manufacturer Airbus said July 3 it had loaded the satellite onto Canopée, a sail-assisted cargo ship designed specifically to transport components for Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket.Like its Airbus-built predecessors Sentinel-2A and -2B — launched in 2015 and 2017, respectively — Sentinel-2C’s payload is designed to generate optical images from the visible to the shortwave infrared region of electromagnetic spectrum.Each Sentinel-2 satellite collects 1.5...