Sentinel-5P satellite inside Rockot fairing, artwork. Sentinel-5P was launched into orbit on a Rockot launch vehicle from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia on 13 October 2017. Sentinel-5P (Sentinel-5 Precursor) is the first mission of the European Space Agency's Copernicus Programme dedicated to monitoring air pollution. The satellite carries the Tropomi instrument (TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument), a spectrometer sensing ultraviolet (UV), visible (VIS), near (NIR) and short-wavelength infrared (SWIR) to monitor ozone, methane, formaldehyde, aerosol, carbon monoxide, NO2 and SO2 in the atmosphere. |