At an event held on 7 November 2016 in Florence, Italy, Leonardo signed a €74 million contract to design, build and test the spectrometer for ESA’s eighth Earth Explorer over the next four years. Pictured: Gianfranco Terrando, Deputy Managing Director for Business Italy, Airborne & Space Systems Division at Leonardo (left) and Josef Aschbacher, Director of ESA’s Earth Observation Programmes (right).