The European Space Agency's Aeolus satellite, with a unique wind-profiling laser instrument on board, was successfully launched on Wednesday (22 August) from the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
"It was a really special moment," said Dutch meteorologist Ad Stoffelen, who has been involved in the project for more than two decades.
"I fully realised that the satellite that we had built was in there," he said about the Vega-rocket which was launched at 11:20PM Brussels ti...
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