Slide 1 CEOS WGISS 17, Troms Ø, May 2003 ESA Report on ESA EO missions CEOS Troms Ø, WGISS May 2004 Henri Laur, ENVISAT Mission Manager Ivan Petiteville
Slide 2 CEOS WGISS 17, Troms Ø, May 2003 Topics ENVISAT Earth Explorer Missions 3 rd Party missions
Slide 3 CEOS WGISS 17, Troms Ø, May 2003 ENVISAT
Slide 4 CEOS WGISS 17, Troms Ø, May 2003 cryosat smos adm goce EARTH EXPLORERS
Slide 5 CEOS WGISS 17, Troms Ø, May 2003 Earth Explorer Missions Core missions: GOCE: Gravity and Ocean Circulation. ADM-Aeolus: Measuring the winds at all altitudes. Opportunity missions CRYOSAT: Sea-Ice Monitoring SMOS: Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity. Floating sea ice NOAA Salinity in the Mediterranean
Slide 6 CEOS WGISS 17, Troms Ø, May 2003 Earth Explorer missions (1/3) CRYOSAT: –ESA contract, Prime Contractor ACS (I) –Some delays with satellite. Launch planned for Dec –Kiruna Ground Station ready –About 60 Scientific projects accepted in Category 1 (data provided by ESA for free)
Slide 7 CEOS WGISS 17, Troms Ø, May 2003 CRYOSAT Ground Station Kiruna Salmijarvi CRYOSAT equipment
Slide 8 CEOS WGISS 17, Troms Ø, May 2003 Earth Explorer missions (2/3) ADM Aeolus: –GS PDS development KO in Jul. 2005, –PDS completed in –Launch in October SMOS: –Ground Segment Phase B just started. Will finish end 2004 then C/D phase
Slide 9 CEOS WGISS 17, Troms Ø, May 2003 Svalbard Ground Station
Slide 10 CEOS WGISS 17, Troms Ø, May 2003 Earth Explorer missions (3/3) GOCE: –ESA contract, Prime Contractor ACS (I) –Ground Segment (PDS) V2 kick-off in Sep –Launch in Jul. 2006
Slide 11 CEOS WGISS 17, Troms Ø, May rd Party mission: ALOS
Slide 12 CEOS WGISS 17, Troms Ø, May 2003 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 –Subsystem Factory Acceptance Tests (Sep to Jun. 2004) –Launch (2005 TBC) –Full deployment by mid 2005