ESA launches new satellite

frankfurt - The European Space Agency on Tuesday launched a new satellite. The artificial satellite should help scientists in the future to follow the global warming and weather phenomena and predicting El Niño.

The Sentinel-3A satellite is part of the Copernicus ESA Earth project. At an altitude of 815 kilometers will collect data on the artificial lake below the sea surface temperature and height of the sea level. Quot; When we talk about global warming, we often focus on increasing air temperatures, but 90 percent of the energy that our planet produces ends up in the ocean , Volker Liebig, ESA said before launch.

ESA and the European Union for the Copernicus project allocated more than € 8 billion, which is published by 2020. ESA calls it the most ambitious project ever for the observation of the Earth from space. Halfway through 2017, a satellite sent into space, Sentinel-3B. Four other Sentinel satellites have been running longer in orbit.