Pollution-Tracking Satellite Launches Friday: Watch Live

A European satellite built to map Earth's air like never before will launch into space early Friday (Oct. 13), and you can watch it live online. The Sentinel-5P satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA) is scheduled to lift off aboard a Rockot launch vehicle at 5:27 a.m. EDT (0927 GMT) from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. You can watch the launch live beginning at 5 a.m. EDT (0900 GMT), courtesy of the ESA. You can also watch the launch directly from the ESA. Sentinel-5P (the "P" stands for "Precursor") is designed to track global air pollution from orbit in unprecedented detail. More

(Source: Space.com - Oct 13)