A 3-tonne, $1.5 billion satellite to watch Earth’s every move is set to launch this week
- Written by Steve Petrie, Earth Observation Researcher, Swinburne University of Technology

In a few days, a new satellite that can detect changes on Earth’s surface down to the centimetre, in almost real time and no matter the time of day or weather conditions, is set to launch from India’s Satish Dhawan Space Centre near Chennai.
Weighing almost 3...