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SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography)
Falcon 9 · Earth Science
2022Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg
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.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- SpaceX
- Rocket
- Falcon 9
- Orbit
- LEO
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 4E
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2