Last Updated
06 May 2022
Published on
20 April 2021
- EUMETSAT has responsibility for ground segment development and coordination at system level, including for operations preparation.
- EUMETSAT also has responsibility for operations of the European part of the ground segment, including processing of altimeter data and delivery of product services to European users.
- NASA has responsibility for the development and delivery of the US payload instruments, the MW radiometer and the GNSS radio occultation receiver.
- NASA provides ground segment development support and will contribute to operations and data processing on the US side, including processing of GNSS radio occultation data.
- NASA and NOAA will share responsibility for the distribution of products to research and operational users in the US.
- NOAA provides a US ground station for tracking and command of the satellite and data down links.
- CNES has responsibility for processing higher-level products (L2B, L3) and for providing precise orbit determination and support for Doris and altimeter operations.
Ground segment sites
Function | Site |
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Ground stations | NOAA, Fairbanks; EU MDA, Kiruna |
Mission operations | EUMETSAT, Darmstadt |
LEOP service | ESA-ESOC, Darmstadt |
Altimetry processing, archive and dissemination | EUMETSAT, Darmstadt |
AMR-C and RO mission performance | NRT: NASA JPL, Pasadena NTC: EUMETSAT, Darmstadt |
GNSS-RO processing, archive and dissemination | NASA JPL, Pasadena |
DORIS mission performance | CNES, Toulouse |
Level 2 NTC RO processing | ROM SAF, DMI Copenhagen |
Altimetry Level-2P/3 product quality | CNES, Toulouse |