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European Space Agency to measure Earth at millimeter scale

The European Space Agency has committed €76.6 million ($83 million) toward the development of Genesis – a flying observatory that will provide positioning services accurate to a single millimeter. The cash is roughly one third of the €233 million ($253 million) awarded for contracts related to position calculating satellite systems that was announced on Tuesday. Genesis is expected to provide International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF) – a global coordinate system that precisely defines the...

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