TRUTHS contract signature at COP28

ESA awarded a contract to Airbus to take the TRUTHS satellite mission to its next development phase, which focuses on the design of the satellite and its instruments involving building demonstration models of some of the key technologies. This next step also includes analysing the instruments’ performance, which includes exhaustive simulations and system modelling, to demonstrate their technical maturity.

ESA’s TRUTHS mission will provide traceable International System of Units (SI) measurements of incoming solar radiation and of radiation reflected from Earth back out into space, with which to calibrate data from other satellites and to provide high-accuracy Earth’s radiation data to climate modelling scientists.

The contract was signed at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai. The photograph shows, left to right:

Antonino Spatola, Sales & Marketing Director, Teledyne e2v
Beth Greenaway, Chair of Space4Climate and Head of Earth Observation and Climate, UK Space Agency
David Masterson, Head of Future Programmes, Airbus UK
Simonetta Cheli, Director of Earth Observation Programmes at ESA
Paul Bate, CEO of UK Space Agency
Karen St Germain, Division Director of Earth Science, NASA
Donna Lyndsay, Vice Chair Space4Climate and Strategic Market Lead for Environment & Sustainability, Ordnance Survey
Rune Floberghagen, Head of Climate Action, Sustainability & Science Department at ESA

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