Mission record
Falcon 9 Block 5 | SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography)
Trajectory & orbital insertion · playback
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Provider
SpaceX
Provider type
Commercial
Orbit
LEO
Mission type
Earth Science
Launch site
United States of America
Date
Fri, 16 Dec 2022 11:46:47 GMT
Orbital launch #
#6361 ever
Go probability
100%
Mission
Satellite altimeter jointly developed by NASA and CNES, the French space agency, in partnership with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and UK Space Agency (UKSA) designed to make the first global survey of the Earth's surface water, to observe the fine details of the ocean surface topography, and to measure how terrestrial surface water bodies change over time.
Deployed payloads · 1