A Cornish company that developed critical equipment for a major new NASA space mission is celebrating following the satellite’s successful launch into orbit.
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) spacecraft, which lifted off from California on Friday (December 16), will spend the next three years surveying nearly all the water on the planet’s surface.
The satellite is the first of its kind and was built for NASA and French space agency Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES), with contributions from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and the UK Space Agency. It will provide high-definition data on the salt- and fresh-water on 90% of the Earth.
