Airbus checking ocean satellite Sentinel-6A´s operational fitness
(WorldNews Netherlands)

Test programme is in full swing - Launch scheduled for November 2020 Munich, 15 November 2019 - Airbus space engineers are currently testing the Copernicus Sentinel-6A satellite at the Space Test Centre of Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgesellschaft mbH (IABG) in Ottobrunn - near Munich - to prove its readiness for space. During the test campaign, which will last until spring 2020, the Airbus team will check that the satellite is able to...