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CO2M-A (Sentinel-7A)

european Earth observation satellite for monitoring greenhouse gases

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ136702543 ↗
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CO2M-A, also known as Sentinel-7A, is a future European Earth observation satellite within the EU's Copernicus programme. Expected to launch in November 2027, CO2M-A will be the first satellite of the Copernicus Sentinel Expansion Missions. Its goal is to provide global measurements of anthropogenic emissions of CO2, CH4, and NO2 to support fulfilling the Paris Agreement. The satellite will be equipped with an infrared spectrometer, a multi-angle polarimeter, and a cloud imager.

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“CO2M-A (Sentinel-7A)” enters the record as european Earth observation satellite for monitoring greenhouse gases. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what CO2M-A, Sentinel-7A and european can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “CO2M-A (Sentinel-7A)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.