The European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) sea-level monitoring Sentinel-6 satellite was successfully placed in orbit over the weekend, after being launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in the US State of California on one of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets. The Sentinel-6 has, unusually for a satellite, a name as well as a designation: the Michael Freilich. It is named after the former director of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (Nasa’s) Earth Science Division.
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