More Jason-3 milestones achieved

June 24, 2010 at 12:51 pm | Posted in Remote Sensing Law Current Events | Leave a comment

by Sara M. Langston with the blog faculty

The partners in the Jason-3 altimetry programme as well as industry achieved further milestones this month.

The EUMETSAT Council meeting in Rome on 21-22 June approved the Jason-3 Programme Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), the French space agency. On this occasion, Dr. Lars Prahm, the EUMETSAT Director-General, and Abigail D. Harper, Deputy Assistant Administrator of NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS)/NOAA, signed a statement of intent to confirm the agreement on the text of the Jason-3 Programme MoU and the authorisation for its formal signature. The related Cooperation Agreement with CNES on the European contribution to the Jason-3 programme was also approved by the Council, and both it and the Jason-3 Programme MoU with NOAA, NASA and CNES will formally be signed by correspondence after the meeting…more