{"id":63304,"date":"2019-01-10T19:44:13","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T11:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/thales-alenia-space-to-lead-esas-flex-mission\/"},"modified":"2019-01-10T19:44:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T11:44:13","slug":"thales-alenia-space-to-lead-esas-flex-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/thales-alenia-space-to-lead-esas-flex-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Thales Alenia Space to Lead ESA\u2019s FLEX Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thales Alenia Space<\/strong>&nbsp;signed a contract with the <strong>European Space Agency<\/strong> (ESA) to lead the Fluorescence Explorer (FLEX) satellite mission. FLEX was selected in 2015 as ESA\u2019s eighth Earth Explorer mission, and is scheduled for launch in 2023. It will the Florescence Imaging Spectrometer (FLORIS) instrument to map the Earth\u2019s vegetation fluorescence to quantify photosynthetic activity.<\/p>\n<p>Thales Alenia Space is the program\u2019s prime contractor and has also signed a novation agreement to integrate the contract that ESA awarded to <strong>Leonardo<\/strong> in 2016 concerning the development of the FLORIS instrument. The overall contract is worth approximately $172.7 million (15o million euros).<\/p>\n<p>Thales Alenia Space will be leading a consortium for the FLEX program that includes its own subsidiaries and partners from the space industry. Thales Alenia Space in the UK will be in charge of the satellite propulsion system, as well as Assembly, Integration, and Testing (AIT). Thales Alenia Space in Spain will provide the radio-frequency subsystem, including X-band and S-band transponders, and <strong>Ruag<\/strong> will contribute to the design and production of the platform.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thales Alenia Space&nbsp;signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to lead the Fluorescence Explorer (FLEX) satellite mission. FLEX was selected in 2015 as ESA\u2019s eighth Earth Explorer mission, and is scheduled for launch in 2023. It will the Florescence Imaging Spectrometer (FLORIS) instrument to map the Earth\u2019s vegetation fluorescence to quantify photosynthetic activity. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}