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Elon Musk’s SpaceX is launching a satellite that can measure rising sea levels to the millimetre from 830 miles above Earth – Business Insider Australia
Elon Musk’s SpaceX will launch a satellite on November 10 that can measure rising sea levels from orbit.
- SpaceX is launching a satellite in November that will track how climate change is causing sea levels to rise.
- The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite will take off November 10 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, aboard a Falcon 9 rocket.
- The satellite will measure how rising sea levels are eroding coastlines by updating maps of the oceans every ten days. Its altimeters can measure millimetre-scale changes in elevation.
- The project is a co…
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