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been manufactured in Spain, local com- PERF ORMING AT FULL C APA CITY
panies participating in the PAZ program-
me have had to adapt to new and diffe-
rent criteria of competitiveness. This has
meant that nearly 100% of the equipment
produced under the direct returns of PAZ
program has qualified as “new develop- on the effect of radio occultation and ex-
ments”. The same will be the case for the treme precipitation in the atmosphere on 47
indirect benefits, which are raising the te- Radio Frequency signals from GPS navi-
chnological capacity and competitive ad- gation satellites. This is a research project
vantage of the Spanish space industry. funded by the National R&D Plan (PNIE),
with participation by the Institute of Space
From an R&D perspective, of note within Sciences of the Higher Council for Scienti-
the programme has been the design, de- fic Research (CSIC), NASA’s Jet Propulsion
velopment, manufacture and operational Laboratory, and the U.S. National Oceanic
flight testing of the radar’s active anten- and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
na produced by EADS-CASA Aerospace,
as well as the transmission and reception Other units that form part of the front-end
modules (TRMs) produced by INDRA. of the instrument, such as the PSU (Power
Supply Unit) or PCU (Payload Control
The other significant contribution in ter- Unit), were produced by NTE-SENER and
ms of R&D is the experiment conducted CRISA. Although the participating Spanish

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