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NASA will host a virtual media briefing at 10:30 a.m. EST on Nov. 14 at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California to discuss the upcoming launch of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite. Scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in central California at 3:46 a.m. PST (6:46 a.m. EST) on Monday, Dec. 12, SWOT will be the first satellite mission to observe nearly all water on Earth’s surface, measuring the height of water in lakes, rivers, reservoirs, as well as the ocean. (NASA image)

(NASA) – NASA will host a virtual media briefing at 10:30 a.m. EST on Nov. 14 at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California to discuss the upcoming launch of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite.

Scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in central California at 3:46 a.m. PST (6:46 a.m. EST) on Monday, Dec. 12, SWOT will be the first satellite mission to observe nearly all water on Earth’s surface, measuring the height of water in lakes, rivers, reservoirs, as well as the ocean.

It is a collaboration between NASA and the French space agency Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES), with contributions from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and the UK Space Agency.

Participants will include:

■ Tahani Amer, program executive, Earth Science Division, NASA Headquarters

■ Parag Vaze, SWOT project manager, JPL

■ Lee-Lueng Fu, SWOT project scientist, JPL

■ Ben Hamlington, research scientist, Sea Level and Ice Group, JPL

■ Thierry Lafon, SWOT program manager, CNES

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