SWOT satellite launch: NASA launches international mission to survey Earth's water
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The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Friday launched the newest Earth science satellite to track nearly all the water on Earth's surface. "A satellite built for NASA and the French space agency Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) to observe nearly all the water on our planet's surface lifted off on its way to low-Earth orbit at 3:46 a.m. PST on Friday," the US space agency said.