SENTINEL-1A SET FOR LAUNCH.

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On 25 February, the EU's Copernicus Earth observation programme posted an update on its Twitter account: on 3 April, the programme's first satellite, Sentinel-1A, will be sent into orbit. The satellite, built by Thales Alenia Space on behalf of the European Space Agency (ESA), arrived at the Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana, on 24 February. It will be launched on a Russian Soyuz rocket. Sentinel-1A will operate in low...