ESA and the German Aerospace Center have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for a state-of-the-art optical data relay terminal to be flown on the Sentinel-2 satellite.
The contract was signed on the 21st October 2010 at ESA headquarters in Paris by Volker Liebig, ESA Director of Earth Observation, Magali Vaissiere, ESA Director of Telecommunications and Integrated Applications, Jurgen Mallwitz, Head of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) Administration Department and Christoph Hohage, DLR Director of national programmes.
Further details at www.esa.int