FLEX on show at Thales Alenia Space cleanroom

Three Earth observation satellites developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) have completed their functional and environmental tests and are ready to travel to the European spaceport in French Guiana.

Here, ESA’s Fluorescence Earth Explorer satellite, known as FLEX, is on show at a media event hosted by Thales Alenia Space at their cleanrooms in Cannes, France. FLEX is an innovative Earth Explorer mission developed by ESA’s FutureEO programme in conjunction with the science community. FLEX is designed to measure and map the health of plants from space by detecting the fluorescent signal emitted by vegetation.

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