imuhammedad
26th November 2007, 08:55 PM
The European Space Agency (Esa) has ordered the first bespoke spacecraft in its new global monitoring programme.
Sentinel 1 is the first Earth observation satellite to be built for the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) project.
Esa plans to launch five Sentinel spacecraft to track changes in the land, oceans, weather and climate.
A 229m euro (£155m) contract for the design and development of Sentinel 1 was signed at the Paris Air Show.
Jean-Jacques Dordain, Esa director-general, and Pascale Sourisse, chief executive of industrial partner Thales Alenia Space, were on hand to do the honours.
"This is the first concrete step in creating the space infrastructure for GMES," said Volker Liebig, Esa's director of Earth observation programmes.
Details and artist design of the satellite could be found here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6765247.stm
imuhammedad
Sentinel 1 is the first Earth observation satellite to be built for the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) project.
Esa plans to launch five Sentinel spacecraft to track changes in the land, oceans, weather and climate.
A 229m euro (£155m) contract for the design and development of Sentinel 1 was signed at the Paris Air Show.
Jean-Jacques Dordain, Esa director-general, and Pascale Sourisse, chief executive of industrial partner Thales Alenia Space, were on hand to do the honours.
"This is the first concrete step in creating the space infrastructure for GMES," said Volker Liebig, Esa's director of Earth observation programmes.
Details and artist design of the satellite could be found here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6765247.stm
imuhammedad