ESRIN, located in Frascati, Italy, is the ESA Centre for Earth Observation and one of ESA's five specialized centers in Europe. It acts as an interface between ESA and its service users, with close links to European industry, the European Union, and civil protection, agriculture, and environment ministries within ESA Member States. ESRIN manages the operation and exploitation of ESA's Earth observation satellites and is responsible for the acquisition, distribution, and exploitation of data from non-ESA satellites.
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Simonetta Cheli is Director of Earth Observation Programmes at the European Space Agency and Head of ESA/ESRIN.
The European Astronaut Centre (EAC) is located in Cologne, Germany, while the ESA's Earth Observation Centre (Esrin) is in Frascati, Italy.
Initial data sets from the first radar acquisition were transmitted to Earth on the same day and appeared on ESA ground station servers at ESRIN near Rome a few hours later.