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NOAA’s Office of Projects, Planning, and Analysis (OPPA) provides for integration, launch, and operation of the Argos Advanced Data Control System (A-DCS) instrument. The A-DCS instrument is provided under international agreement with the French space agency Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES).
OPPA is utilizing the US Air Force Hosted Payload Solution (HoPS) contract to provide a commercial payload hosting solution for the A-DCS instrument. The A-DCS instrument is complete and in storage at CNES.
The Argos system provides worldwide coverage with the unique ability to independently locate a data source from anywhere on earth. The Argos-4 A-DCS instrument, part of Argos, collects, processes, and disseminates environmental data from fixed and mobile platforms worldwide. Each month, this system provides key environmental data from more than 21,000 active Argos platforms globally.