Division Sentinel Core Ground Stations (CGS)

ESA shall manage the overall network of X-band Core Ground Stations. A dedicated infrastructure shall allow to do the following:

1. (a)

   acquire Sentinel Data Downlinks;

2. (b)

   demodulate and Store the Instrument Source Packets (ISP) data;

3. (c)

   provide ISP to the Level-0 processor and to EUMETSAT for Sentinel-3;

4. (d)

   send the L0 data to the Processing and Archiving Centres;

5. (e)

   perform Near Real Time L1/L2 production and make the data available to users and the PACs.