ASTRIUM SELECTED
Astrium has contracted to build the spacecraft for the European Space Agency's first Earth Explorer opportunity mission, Cryosat. The 140-million-euro ($124-million) mission, to be launched into polar orbit in April 2004 by a Cosmos or Dnepr rocket, will observe the polar ice sheets and ocean ice...
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