ESA (unofficial)With the #Sentinel-2B #satellite close to beginning its working life in orbit, this latest Copernicus satellite has linked up to #Alphasat by laser, across almost 36 000 km of space, to deliver images of Earth just moments after they were captured.
The test, which was done as part of Sentinel-2B’s commissioning, included capturing a strip of images from Europe to North Africa and downlinking the data in just six minutes. #EarthObservation http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-2/First_Sentinel-2B_images_delivered_by_laser #space
The test, which was done as part of Sentinel-2B’s commissioning, included capturing a strip of images from Europe to North Africa and downlinking the data in just six minutes. #EarthObservation http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-2/First_Sentinel-2B_images_delivered_by_laser #space