The situation “does not look very good” for the Sentinel 1-B satellite of the EU’s Copernicus Earth observation programme, confirmed European Space Agency (ESA) Director General Josef Aschbacher and Simonetta Cheli, head of ESA’s Earth observation programmes, at the end of the institution’s 306th Council meeting on Thursday 17 March.
The Director General said that the ESA services have carried out several investigations, but “to keep it very short, the situation does not look...