Published on November 3, 2011

2007 GEOSS; Francois Auque

A speaker at the 2007 IAF GEOSS seminar was the Chief Executive Officer of EADS Astrium Mr Francois Auque.

Astrium has lead responsibility for development of Eumetsat's MetOp satellite system, the first flight unit of which was launched in 2006. MetOp is playing an important role in collecting meteorological and climate data and which will work closely with the NPOESS satellites.