Saturday, November 15, 2025

Second Sentinel 6-B Launch Logistics -- For Late Tomorrow -- And, A Link To A Live Feed...


Monitoring sea levels, using this French constructed small orbiting craft -- one of a pair, that will now be watching from above in low Earth orbit. . . is vital (despite the claims of the luddites/MAGA crowd -- and their endlessly-unscientific poppycock, all designed to keep fossil fuel harvesting out of international regulators' ways) -- for all of humanity.

We may be otherwise disposed tomorrow night, but you may also catch a live-cast of the launch at this NASA link, Sunday night into the wee hours of Monday morning (depending on where in the US you tune in from):

. . .NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for Sentinel-6B, an international mission delivering critical sea level and ocean data to protect coastal infrastructure, improve weather forecasting, and support commercial activities at sea [Ed. Note: this political rewrite of the mission objectives. . . is a direct by-product of Trumpism -- the mission will support global climate change monitoring efforts, and provide objective data -- obviously].

Launch is targeted at 12:21 a.m. EST, Monday, Nov. 17 (9:21 p.m. PST, Sunday, Nov. 16) aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. . . .


Now you know -- much busy-ness ahead, starting about midday Monday. . . smile.

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