02 August 2014
Jean-Yves Le Gall, President of the French Space Agency CNES and Xu Dazhe, Administrator of the China National Space Administration CNSA, signed an agreement on the SVOM (Space Variable Objects Monitor) astrophysics mission on 2 August in Beijing.
China will be responsible for the mission, satellite and bus, and will share responsibility with France for the instruments and ground segment. CNES will oversee the French contribution, consisting of the MXT and ECLAIRs instruments, for which the Toulouse Space Centre (CST) will be prime contractor, and the French elements of the ground segment (MXT and ECLAIRs control centre, data processing centre and alerting antenna network).
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