NASA SpaceX Sentinel-6B
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Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) | Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) • Falcon 9 Block 5 B1097.3 Flight 3 Reuseable • Return to Landing Site (RTLS) Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4) • Sentinel-6B • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
@SpaceX Targeting Sunday, November 16 for launch of NASA’s Sentinel-6B mission from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Liftoff is targeted for 9:21 p.m. PT
This will be the third flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously supported two Starlink missions. Following stage separation, the first stage will land on Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4) at Vandenberg Space Force Base
Sentinel-6B will use radar to bounce signals off of the ocean surface to deliver continuous ocean topography measurements. The mission also will collect high-resolution vertical profiles of temperature to assess temperature changes in Earth’s atmosphere and improve weather prediction models. It will take over from Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, a twin of Sentinel-6B, which Falcon 9 launched five years ago on November 21, 2020