{"id":84744,"date":"2011-06-03T21:32:23","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T13:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/sofradir-wins-swir-detector-supply-contract-for-esas-gmes-project\/"},"modified":"2011-06-03T21:32:23","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T13:32:23","slug":"sofradir-wins-swir-detector-supply-contract-for-esas-gmes-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/sofradir-wins-swir-detector-supply-contract-for-esas-gmes-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Sofradir Wins SWIR Detector Supply Contract for ESA\u2019s GMES Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[06-03-11] <b>Sofradir<\/b> was awarded a contract to provide shortwave-infrared (SWIR) arrays for the Sentinel 5 Precursor mission as part of the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) space initiative \u2014 a joint project by the European Commission and the <b>European Space Agency<\/b> (ESA), Sofradir announced June 2.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The SWIR array was originally developed for ESA\u2019s Spectra mission in 1999. Sofradir will provide its off-the-shelf SWIR arrays based on mercury cadmium telluride technology to U.K.-based satellite and space equipment supplier <strong>SSTL<\/strong>.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cSofradir will not be required to participate in a preliminary design phase, reducing lead time,\u201d Sofradir Chariman and CEO Philippe Bensussan said in a statement. \u201cDeliveries will be completed within 2 years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[06-03-11] Sofradir was awarded a contract to provide shortwave-infrared (SWIR) arrays for the Sentinel 5 Precursor mission as part of the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) space initiative \u2014 a joint project by the European Commission and the European Space Agency (ESA), Sofradir announced June 2. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The SWIR array was originally developed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-84744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84744"}],"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=84744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}