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Contract signed for building of GMES Sentinel-1 satellite
06-18-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)ESA and Thales Alenia Space have signed a €229 million contract for the design and development of Sentinel-1, the first Earth observation satellite to be built for Europe's Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme.
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