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Sentinel 2 - Consorcio empresas participantes

02/03/2017 1175 views 2 likes
ESA / Space in Member States / Spain
Satellites
Platform procurement and AIT, mass
memory, Coarse Earth and Sun Sensors,
propulsion
Prime Contractor: Astrium GmbH (Germany)
MultiSpectral Instrument
Inertial Measurement Unit, beam splitter
and VNIR detectors
Astrium SAS (France) with the support of
ISAE (France) and e2v Technologies (UK) for
the VNIR detectors
Platform structure, thermal hardware and
harness

Casa Espacio (Spain)

 

Power conditioning and distribution unit,
instrument front-end electronics

 

CRISA (Spain)

 

Mission analysis

 

GMV (Spain)

 

GPS receiver

 

RUAG (Austria)

 

Onboard Computer, S-band and GPS
antennas

 

RUAG (Sweden)

 

Solar Array Drive Mechanism

 

RUAG (Switzerland)

 

Remote interface unit

 

Patria (Finland)

 

X-band subsystem, S-band transponder

 

Thales (Spain)

 

X-band antenna

 

Thales (Italy)

 

Reaction wheels

 

Bradford Engineering (Netherlands)

 

Star sensors, Video and Compression Unit,
optical filters

 

Jena-Optronik (Germany) with the support
of Optics Balzers Jena (Germany) and
Materion/Barr (USA) for optical filters

 

Magnetometers and magnetorquers

 

ZARM (Germany)

 

Miniature Inertial Measurement Unit

 

Honeywell (USA)

 

Batteries

 

ABSL (UK)

 

Software support

 

Critical Software (Portugal)

 

Independent software verification and
validation

 

Rovsing (Denmark)

 

Mechanical Ground Support Equipment
(MGSE) for the instrument primary and
secondary structure and the satellites

 

APCO (Switzerland), with the support of
Iberespacio (Spain) and Xperion (Germany)

 

Electrical Ground Support Equipment
(EGSE)

 

SSBV (Netherlands), Siemens (Austria),
Clemessy (Italy)

 

MGSE

 

Sermati (Canada)

 

Silicon carbide telescope and mirrors

 

Boostec (France)

 

Mirror polishing

 

AMSO (Belgium)

 

Calibration and shutter mechanism

 

Sener (Spain)

 

SWIR detectors

 

Sofradir (France)

 

Telescope metallic hardware

 

Admatis (Hungary)

 

Instrument harness

 

Latelec (France)

 

Ground prototype processor

 

ACS (Italy)

 

Data decompression software

 

Magellium (France)

 

Satellite environmental test facilities at
ESTEC

 

ETS (Germany, France)

 

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