NASA Signs Agreements with ESA, France
In the past week, NASA has signed more agreements with its international partners. In addition to the framework agreement with Canada announced last week, NASA signed agreements with the European Space Agency (ESA) on September 11 and the French space agency Centre Nationale d’etudes Spatiale (CNES) on September 17.
The NASA-ESA agreement provides for exchanging technical information and personnel on civil space transportation systems. Specific areas of cooperation include composite material technology, development of payload shrouds, and management of propellants in spacecraft propulsion systems used for going to and from lunar orbit.
The agreements with CNES cover four space science missions: CNES participation in two NASA missions — the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVE) mission scheduled for launch in 2013; and the Magnetospheric MultiScale Mission to be launched in 2014, and for NASA participation in CNES’ Convection Rotation and Planetary Transits mission. The fourth agreement is for potential cooperation on NASA’s Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission.
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