{"id":87207,"date":"2010-04-01T19:54:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T11:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/astrium-wins-esas-sentinel-2b-contract\/"},"modified":"2010-04-01T19:54:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T11:54:13","slug":"astrium-wins-esas-sentinel-2b-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/astrium-wins-esas-sentinel-2b-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Astrium Wins ESA\u2019s Sentinel-2B Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[04-01-10] <strong>Astrium<\/strong> has been commissioned by the <strong>European Space Agency<\/strong> (ESA) to build the Sentinel-2B optical satellite, the next flight unit in the Sentinel series, the company announced March 31.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Astrium will be responsible for the satellite\u201as overall system design, multi-spectral instrument, platform, integration and testing. The contract is valued at 105 million euros ($145.5 million) and increases Astrium\u201as total Sentinel-2 program revenue to about 323 million euros ($435 million) following the Sentinel-2A contract Astrium signed in 2008.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Sentinel-2 satellites, part of the ESA\u2019s GMES program in Germany, France and Spain, aim to provide Europe with the ability to monitor environmental changes in the region over an extended period of time for data collection. The will be used for regional planning, agriculture and forest management, disaster control and humanitarian relief operations.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">Astra 3B Launch Postponed<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tMarch 29, 2010<br \/>\n[03-29-10] Arianespace has  postponed the launch of SES Astra 3B satellite due to an anomaly that  occurred in a launcher subsystem, the operator announced March 26.  <\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Astrium Completes Ka-Sat Communications Module<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp;  \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tMarch 22, 2010<br \/>\n[03-22-10] Astrium has  completed a communications module for Eutelsat s high-speed broadband  communications satellite, Ka-Sat, the operator announced March 19.  <\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Europe\u2019s Space Ambitions<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tVia Satellite&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tDecember 1, 2009<br \/>\nThe European Commission sponsored a two-day  conference in October in Brussels to discuss  The Ambitions of Europe in  Space.  European big guns Jose Barroso, newly reappointed president of  the European Commission; Rainer Wieland, vice president of\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[04-01-10] Astrium has been commissioned by the European Space Agency (ESA) to build the Sentinel-2B optical satellite, the next flight unit in the Sentinel series, the company announced March 31. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Astrium will be responsible for the satellite\u201as overall system design, multi-spectral instrument, platform, integration and testing. The contract is valued at 105 million euros [&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-87207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87207"}],"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=87207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}