A UK company, Astrium UK, has been chosen by the European Space Agency to play a key role in a project to build a satellite for monitoring climate change from space.
The £40 million Sentinel 5 Precursor satellite forms part of the European Union’s Global Monitoring for Environment and Security programme, an Earth-observation project intended to provide data on the planet’s health. The satellite will monitor the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere from 2015.
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