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ESA Report on ESA EO missionsESA Report on ESA EO missions CEOS CEOS Beijing, Beijing,
WGISSWGISS Sep. 2004Sep. 2004
H. Laur, H. Laur, YL Desnos,YL Desnos,I. PetitevilleI. Petiteville
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Topics
ENVISAT
DRAGON NRSCC-ESA Joint Programme
Earth Explorer Missions
3rd Party missions: ALOS
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ENVISAT
Observing the Earth from space:
the ENVISAT Mission
Henri LAUREnvisat Mission Manager
“Big Science” in Geology, 32nd Int. Geological Congress, August 2004
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DRAGON Programme
Dragon Programmeand Organisation
Dragon programme coordinators
Li Zengyuan for NRSCC
Yves-Louis Desnos for ESA
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cryosat
smos
adm
goce
EARTH EXPLORERS
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Earth Explorer MissionsCore missions:
GOCE: Gravity and Ocean Circulation.
ADM-Aeolus: Measuring the winds at all altitudes.
Opportunity missionsCRYOSAT: Sea-Ice Monitoring
SMOS: Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity.
Floating sea ice NOAA
Salinity in the Mediterranean
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Earth Explorer missions (1/3)
• CRYOSAT: – ESA contract, Prime Contractor ACS (I) – Some delays with satellite. Launch
planned for 1st quarter of 2005– Kiruna Ground Station ready– About 60 Scientific projects accepted in
Category 1 (data provided by ESA for free)
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CRYOSAT Ground Station
Kiruna Salmijarvi
CRYOSAT equipment
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Earth Explorer missions (2/3)• ADM Aeolus:
– GS PDS development KO in Jul. 2005,
– PDS completed in 2007. – Launch in October 2007.
• SMOS:– Ground Segment Phase B
on-going until end 2004 then C/D phase
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Svalbard Ground Station
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Earth Explorer missions (3/3)
• GOCE:– ESA contract, Prime Contractor ACS (I) – Ground Segment (PDS) V2 kick-off in Sep. 2003– Launch in summer 2006
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3rd Party mission: ALOS
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ALOS
• 3 sensors: 1 SAR L-band and 2 optical
• ALOS Data European Node (ADEN): – ESA contract, Prime VEGA (UK). – GS development kicked-off end of July 2002. – Subsystem Factory Acceptance Tests (Sep.
2003 to Jun. 2004)– Launch (summer 2005)– Full deployment by mid 2005
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