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METOP Ground Stations for CLS, France

Kongsberg Spacetec is awarded a contract with CLS, Collecte
Localisation Satellite, France for delivery of three multimission
ground stations capable of receiving and processing data from the NOAA
and METOP satellites.

Kongsberg Spacetec is awarded a contract with CLS, Collecte
Localisation Satellite, France for delivery of three multimission
ground stations capable of receiving and processing data from the NOAA
and METOP satellites.
The first system will delivered in 2005 and the two others in 2006.
The delivery includes three 2,4 m L-band
antennas, for the polar orbiting meteorological satellites NOAA and
METOP. Hardware and software for ingest, monitoring and control and
basic processing are also delivered.
This is a very important contract for
Kongsberg Spacetec, which shows that customers believe in our
Multimission Meos Polar systems, including the new METOP Meos system.
It also proves that our development of the Reference User Station for
EPS, for Emetsat, is very important for our customers and makes sure
that we have a state of the art system.