Contract signed for ESA’s Sentinel-3 earth observation satellite


Signature of Sentinel-3 contract
 
ESA and Thales Alenia Space signed the contract for Sentinel-3 Earth Observation satellite on 14 April 2008 in Paris.
From left to right: Pascale Sourisse, President and CEO of Thales Alenia Space and Volker Liebig, ESA Director of Earth Observation, signing the contract in the presence of Jean-Philippe Saint-Martin, deputy director of Valérie Pécresse's Cabinet, Minister for Higher Education and Research, Dominique Bussereau, French Secretary of State for Transport at the Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development & Land Management Ministry, Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General and M. Valère Moutarlier, European Commission, Head of GMES Bureau.

Volker Liebig and Pascale Sourisse
 
Volker Liebig, ESA Director of Earth Observation, and Pascale Sourisse, President and CEO of Thales Alenia Space, signed the contract for Sentinel-3 Earth Observation satellite on 14 April 2008 in Paris. Sentinel-3 will provide crucial data for information services to the European Union and its Member States as part of GMES. The services to be fed data cover areas such as climate change, sustainable development, environmental policies, European civil protection, development aid, humanitarian aid and the European Common Foreign & Security Policy.

Sentinel-3 artist's impression
 
ESA’s Sentinel-3 operational ocean monitoring mission is scheduled to be launched in 2012.



Release date: 21 July 2009