Sea Level Monitoring Enters New Era
Sunday, November 2, 2008 - 22:28
in Astronomy & Space
After four months of tests and qualification of the entire satellite and the ground segment by the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), the French space agency, command and control operations for the Jason-2 ocean altimetry satellite were handed over to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on 29 October.
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