Thales: awarded contract with NOOA in the US

(CercleFinance.com) - Thales today announces that the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has entrusted it with the development and construction of an operational ground station to be based in Holloman AFB, New Mexico.


"The ground station will receive and process 406 MHz distress beacon signals from the MEO satellites being tracked, and relay them to the US SARSAT (Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking) program's Mission Control Center (USMCC), via US government communication links, for validation and distribution to rescue authorities," Thales said.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in United States, has chosen Thales to develop and build an operational ground station in the southwest part of the country, at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, to track Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) satellites* operating in medium Earth orbit (MEO).



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