The international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite took off from Cape Canaveral in Florida on 16 December.

Bangor University among the best of British science contributing to world-first satellite

Having played a part in deploying specialist equipment in the Bristol Channel, scientists at Bangor University are poised to analyse some of the data from the first satellite to measure the Earth’s water levels in unprecedented detail.

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