Thales Alenia Space chosen by French space agency CNES to build SWIM instrument for French-Chinese observation satellite
January 4, 2011
Thales Alenia Space has signed end December 2010, a contract with French space agency CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales) to produce the Surface Waves Investigation and Monitoring (SWIM) instrument. This wave-scatterometer spectrometer was chosen within the scope of a joint French-Chinese program to develop an Earth observation satellite, the “China France Oceanography Satellite” (CFOSAT), built jointly by CNES and the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
