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April 11, 2006

Europe and U.S secure Ocean Surface Topography Mission

A cooperative agreement was signed today between EUMETSAT, the French Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the USA, to secure the Jason-2 Programme, a new Earth observation mission dedicated to Ocean Surface Topography planned for launch in 2008.

April 7, 2006

MetOp to be shipped to Baikonour 17 April

Following yesterday’s decision by EUMETSAT, the first operational meteorological satellite of the EPS mission, MetOp, has been declared ready for shipment to the Baikonour Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

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