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NPP systems delivered and Successfull installation of MEOS™ Polar system for INSA at Canary Island Space Sentre


NPP systems delivered

We have now completed the upgrade and delivery of 7 MEOS polar systems to customers in Europe and Asia to support NPP and also EOS, NOAA, FY3 and METOP.
NPP systems delivered

Kongsberg Spacetec has now completed the upgrade and delivery of 7 MEOS polar systems to customers in Europe and Asia to support NPP and also EOS, NOAA, FY3 and METOP.

This NPP picture of Norway, Sweden and Finland, February 29 2012 is made from VIIRS channels 5, 4 og 3 received by our NPP direct broadcast reference system in Tromsø.

Successfull installation of MEOS™ Polar system for INSA at Canary Island Space Sentre

Successful installation of MEOS™ Polar system including antenna to Ingenieria y Servicios Aeroespaciales SA – INSA at the Canary Islands Space Centre in Maspalomas, Gran Canaria.

This is a L/X band ground station which will be a part of EUMETSATs EARS network

The system is cabable of receiving and processing data from the meteorological satellites Metop, NOAA, FY-3 (L- and X- band simultaneously), NPP and in the future JPSS.

The MEOS™ Polar ground station system is Kongsberg Spacetec’s multi-mission, flexible and modular turnkey system for acquisition, archiving, processing, analysis and distribution of meteorological data.

INSA is 100% property of the National Institute for Aerospace Technique (INTA), a body of the Spanish Ministry of Defence.

For more information about the customer: INSA – Ingenieria y Servicios Aeroespaciales SA

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