Catalunya launches another nano-satellite to help in climate change fight
Tuesday, February 8, 2022 @ 5:34 PM
A SECOND nano-satellite is set to be launched into space from Catalunya this autumn, with a budget of €1.7 million, as part of the ongoing fight against climate change.
It will collect data from 'watching' the earth in a range of spectral bands, giving scientists the information they need to monitor global warming, its process and effects, work out what to do to slow it down, and how to minimise the damage by devising ways of adapting to the more extreme weather and harsher conditions that come with it.
Catalunya's first nano-satellite, Enxaneta, launching in March 2021 in Kazakhstan
The first extra-small satellite – weighing around 4.2 kilos, or about the equivalent of just over four litre cartons of milk, or a small adult cat – went up in March 2021, primarily to support the 5G roll-out and provide internet and mobile phone coverage to all of Catalunya's residential areas, however remote.
It also serves the purpose of data collation for tackling climate change, and so far, the satellite baptised Enxaneta has managed to collect a huge corpus of information of vital help to the wine and vineyard industries.
Once again, the second satellite, which is double the size of Enxaneta, will go up from the world's first-ever space base – the Cosmodrome in Baykonur, Kazakhstan, and will cost more than three-and-a-half times the €574,000 spent on the initial launch 11 months ago.
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