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ESA awards contract to Astrium for development of two Sentinel-4 sensors for MTG weather satellites

Paris, France - That will be launched in 2019 and 2027

Paris-based ESA, European Space Agency, announced yesterday on its web-site it has signed a nearly 150-million-dollar-Euro contract with Astrium -the EADS' subsidiary aerospace company providing space services and systems in civil and military fields- for the development of two identical spectrometers known as "Sentinel-4". They're two satellite sensor that should be carried on Meteosat Third Generation...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1131897
Rome, Italy, 07/12/2011 12:03
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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