The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Airbus Defence and Space a €160-million contract to develop the agency’s Far-infrared Outgoing Radiation Understanding and Monitoring (FORUM) satellite. The work will be led and largely undertaken at the Airbus facility in Stevenage in England. The instrument signal detection train will be developed by Airbus in Germany, with platform product support being provided by Airbus in France. “We are thrilled to award the industrial contract to Airbus in the UK as Prime Contractor for FORUM, with OHB in Germany responsible for the instrument,” affirmed ESA Earth Observation Programmes director Simonetta Cheli. “FORUM adds to our highly successful family of Earth Explorer missions and by acquiring novel information, will bring great benefits to climate science.”
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