Rockot to launch two Sentinel satellites

Friday, February 10, 2012 - 08:31 in Astronomy & Space

ESA and Eurockot today signed contracts for launching two ESA satellites: Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-3A will fly in 2013 on Rockot vehicles from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia for Europe’s GMES program. The contract signing by Matthias Oehm, Chief Executive Officer of Eurockot Launch Services GmbH, and Volker Liebig, Director of ESA’s Earth Observation Programs, took place at the historic Chamber of Commerce of Bremen, Germany.

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