EarthCARE SatWork Includes SEA Radiometer

Cohort plc is delighted one of its subsidiary companies, SEA, has been authorized by the German satellite prime contractor EADS Astrium GmbH, to proceed with work on a new contract to develop and supply the BroadBand Radiometer (BBR) instrument of the EarthCARE satellite. SEA’s BBR team, which has been working together for some time leading up to this award, is predominantly UK-based and includes the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) and Sula. SEA also has a smaller role on another of EarthCARE‘s instruments, the Cloud Profiling Radar, which is being supplied for the mission by the Japanese Space Agency. EarthCARE is the third of the European Space Agency‘s Earth Explorer Core Missions and is aimed at improving the understanding of interactions between clouds, aerosols and radiation. The BroadBand Radiometer will serve to confirm the radiated energy estimates which will be derived from the profiles of clouds and aerosols measured by the other instruments.