(CNN Spanish) - The observation satellite SAOCOM 1B, manufactured and created in Argentina by the technological design company INVAP and the National Commission for Space Activities (CONAE), was launched this Sunday from Cape Canaveral, in the United States.
A Falcon 9 launch vehicle from SpaceX was in charge of putting it into orbit.
This new SAOCOM is the second that Argentina has put into orbit and has the mission of detecting humidity levels in the earth to help manage the environment and control emergencies due to fires or floods.
It is valued as a great technological support to agriculture because it will allow detecting the best conditions for growing corn, soybeans, sunflower and wheat and increasing the efficiency of fertilization and irrigation of these crops.
The # SAOCOM1B satellite is in space, making its first orbits. With its launch, Argentina completed the most important space mission in the country!
We have a great team! #ArgentinaUnida #HaciaElFuturo https://t.co/FzhGXPST9w
- CONAE (@CONAE_Oficial) August 31, 2020
According to the Argentine Government, SEACOM 1B is part of the Italian-Argentine Satellite System for Emergency Management together with the Italian Space Agency (ASI), which has new sensors that allow it to work on soil observation in any weather condition. The 24 hours of the day.
This Argentine satellite facilitates collaboration between observation stations in the United States, Peru, Kenya, Italy, Norway, the Kerguelen Islands in the Indian Ocean, Antarctica, Tierra del Fuego and the CONAE station in Córdoba.
The president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, who followed the launch of the SAOCOM 1B satellite on television from the Olivos residence in Buenos Aires, said he was proud of this launch: “I am proud that this is done by Argentine scientists, this is Argentine science, this is the capacity of our scientists ”.
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