European Space Agency

$637,242.00 CAD

≈ 8 Canadians' average pay for a year

Department: Canadian Space Agency
Program: Contributions under the Cooperation Agreement between the Government of Canada and the European Space Agency (ESA)
Recipient country: France
Fiscal year: 2019-2020
Agreement period: January 1, 2020 – January 1, 2030
Reference: csa-asc:003-2019-2020-Q3-00005

Published purpose

The European Earth Watch Programme is an optional program of the European Space Agency (ESA). The contribution has been awarded for the Arctic Weather Satellite element of the programme, which is aimed at the development of a prototype satellite for future constellation of weather satellites to monitor the polar regions, providing long-term datasets to improve weather forecasting, and contributing toward long-term datasets to study climate change in these vulnerable locations.

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