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Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT)

United Kingdom Coastal Research Conference

Posted: 28 June 2023

The United Kingdom Coastal Research Conference will showcase and celebrate the coastal research being undertaken within the UK. Principally focused on UK academics, organisations and institutions working on UK coastal science, the conference also welcomes research using overseas case studies that are of relevance to the UK.

World-first satellite to measure Earth’s water levels blasts into space

Posted: 19 December 2022
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) spacecraft on a transport container inside the Astrotech facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, 18 November 2022. Photo: USSF 30th Space Wing/Chris Okula

A UK-backed mission, which will observe huge swathes of ocean and surface water in unprecedented detail, has launched into space.

The international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite took off from Vandenberg in California on 16 December.

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