A spacecraft measuring Earth's warming 'greenhouse' effect in its greatest ever detail will be built in the UK.
The Forum satellite will be assembled by aerospace giant Airbus at its factory in Stevenage.
It will monitor far-infrared radiation coming up from our planet's surface.
It's this particular type of light that makes molecules of gases such as carbon dioxide and water vapour vibrate, leading to a heating of the atmosphere - a key aspect of climate change.
Forum is an Earth observation mission of the European Space Agency (Esa). Its procurement contract with Airbus is worth €160m (£140m).
Source: www.bbc.com
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