UK to build new satellite to monitor climate crisis and natural disasters
by Tom Ambrose from on (#6GHDX)
The pathfinder craft, co-funded by 3m from the UK Space Agency, will provide data to help detect and monitor natural disasters
The UK will help fund and build a new spacecraft that will help scientists monitor the climate crisis and natural disasters.
The new pathfinder satellite will be funded with 3m from the UK Space Agency, joining Spain and Portugal in the 80m (70m) Atlantic Constellation project. Co-funding will be provided by Open Cosmos, based on the Harwell campus in Oxfordshire.
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