29.11.2012 Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences

Astrium to build two new research satellites GRACE-FO

Astrium, Europe’s leading space technology company, has been commissioned to build two new research satellites for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL (Pasadena, California). The agreement was signed today in Friedrichshafen, Germany. For a minimum of five years from August 2017, the Gravity Recovery and Climate ExperimentFollow-On (Grace FO) mission will continue the extremely accurate measurement data collection of the first twin Grace satellites, which have been in orbit since 17 March, 2002.

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