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by Staff Writers Madrid, Spain (SPX) Sep 22, 2015
The European Space Agency has extended until 2017 the maintenance and development contract of the SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) mission user segment, entrusted to Indra. The service could thereafter be extended for another two years, until 2019, depending on the program's development. The SMOS satellite user segment for studying the Earth's water cycle is located at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) in Villafranca del Castillo (Madrid). This mission's satellite was launched into space in November 2009 with a useful life of 3 years according to initial calculations, but its excellent technical and scientific conditions have enabled extending it. Indra, as the company that led the SMOS user segment, has undertaken corrective and preventive maintenance since the start of operations in June 2010. To this task we must include engineering tasks that have introduced major improvements to the processing and reprocessing chain to generate products of higher quality. In this regard, the successful implementation of a new software version or baseline has been completed with corporate support for all elements of the user segment. This update will allow for generating higher quality data to be used for obtaining more precise images of the planet's distribution of moisture and salinity values.
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