{"id":87441,"date":"2010-02-25T17:29:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T09:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/thales-alenia-space-to-build-jason-3\/"},"modified":"2010-02-25T17:29:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T09:29:57","slug":"thales-alenia-space-to-build-jason-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/thales-alenia-space-to-build-jason-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Thales Alenia Space to Build Jason-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[02-25-10] The <strong>French Space Agency<\/strong> (CNES) has contracted <strong>Thales Alenia Space<\/strong> to build the Jason-3 weather satellite based on the Proteus platform, the manufacturer announced Feb. 24.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The satellite, expected for mid 2013, will be placed in the same orbit as Jason-2 to provide coverage over ice-free ocean surfaces. <br \/>\nSoil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS), also built by Thales Alenia Space and launched in November 2009, will work with Jason-3 to provide regular maps of sea surface salinity, showing where and when large amounts of fresh waters are introduced in the cycle, for instance through rains, about 90 percent of which are estimated to fall over open sea. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Jason-3 operational oceanographic mission is a collaboration between <strong>Eumetsat<\/strong>, <strong>NASA<\/strong> and the <strong>U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association<\/strong>. Financial details of the contract were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">NOAA Merges Climate Science, Service Delivery Offices<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp;  \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tFebruary 10, 2010<br \/>\n[02-10-10] The U.S. Department  of Commerce is planning to create a U.S. National Oceanic Atmospheric  Administration (NOAA) Climate Service line office that will combine the  agency s climate science and service delivery capabilities\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Eumetsat Member States Pledge $88 Million to Jason-3  Program<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tFebruary 3, 2010<br \/>\n[02-03-10] Multiple member  states of the European Organization for the Exploitation of  Meteorological Satellites (Eumetsat) have agreed to subscribe to the  Jason-3 ocean altimetry satellite program, Eumetsat announced Feb. 2. <\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Thales Alenia Space Ships SMOS to Plesetsk Cosmodrome<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp;  \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSeptember 18, 2009<br \/>\n[09-18-09] Thales Alenia Space  has shipped the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) Earth  observation satellite to the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia, for its  scheduled Nov. 2 launch, Thales Alenia Space announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[02-25-10] The French Space Agency (CNES) has contracted Thales Alenia Space to build the Jason-3 weather satellite based on the Proteus platform, the manufacturer announced Feb. 24. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The satellite, expected for mid 2013, will be placed in the same orbit as Jason-2 to provide coverage over ice-free ocean surfaces. Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity [&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-87441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87441"}],"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=87441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}