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Leonardo will monitor the health of the Earth from Space: 74 million contract from ESA

Florence, Italy - The industry will provide the spectrometer for the FLEX Space mission, which will study the actual photosynthetic activity of vegetation on a global scale

Today Leonardo-Finmeccanica has signed a contract worth 74 million Euros with the European Space Agency (ESA) to create the FLEX spectrometer for the mission of the same name as part of the ESA’s ‘Earth Explorer’ Programme. From 2022 the FLEX mission will study the health of Earth’s vegetation from a satellite, gathering data that will have implications for Earth’s ecosystems and the maintenance of life o...

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Rome, Italy, 11/07/2016 17:03
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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