CSL tested the entire satellite in FOCAL 5 during about 8 months. These very difficult tests have been made after other very long lasting tests in order to eliminate any trace of foreign gas on board that satellite.
ATLID is an instrument of the EarthCARE (Earth Clouds, Aerosols and Radiation Explorer) satellite for observing the Earth's atmosphere, part of ESA's Living Planet programme and developed in collaboration with the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA).
CSL participated quite a lot to three instruments Meris, Gomos and ASAR, of the ENVISAT, European satellite that observed the earth and its atmosphere from 2002 to 2012.
ICON is an American satellite to observe the very external layers of the earth; it will be launched soon. The instrument FUI, on board ICON, has been tested at CSL.
CSL have developed software for the SENTINEL 1A and 1B satellites that use SAR observations of the earth and we also analyze the observations made by these instruments.
CSL made long tests of the instruments MSI on SENTINEL 2A and 2B; they observe the earth at different wavelengths. CSL is testing the instruments MSI on SENTINEL 2C and 2D.
SENTINEL 3A and 3B, CSL is concerned by the OLCI (Ocean and Land Color Instrument) being responsible for the conception and construction of the mechanism that allow to calibrate the instruments. We are still testing samples for SENTINEL 3C and 3D
CSL made very long tests, five months, of the instrument TROPOMI on board SENTINEL 5P, launched in October 2017. It observes, thanks to its spectrometer working from the UV to the IR, all the constituents of our atmosphere.
