Astrium is Europe’s major satellite and space vehicles developer.
Astrium is Europe’s major satellite and space vehicles developer.
2 PagesThe Business The European Space Agency selected Astrium to develop the Polar Platform, a general purpose satellite scheduled to be used in two missions - Envisat (environmental monitoring) and Metop (Meteorological monitoring). Astrium also won the contract to supply several of the Polar Platform subsystems, one of which was the High-Speed Multiplexer. This was designed to collect, compress and transmit data from the many instruments on-boar
