"As a way out, we improved the standards for the mission so that they could meet the requirements of both sides," Wang said.

Patrick Castillan, a project manager in charge of French payloads with the CNES, said each decision was made after hard negotiation and compromise.

"We spent a lot of time at the beginning of the program trying to understand each other, as we have different standards, habits and cultures," Castillan said. "We have both learned a lot. The result is whenever we reach an agreement, it is a win-win option."

He stressed that the cooperation would continue in the collection and processing of data.

There will be five ground stations to collect the data from the satellite. Three are in China and the other two, managed by France, in Canada and Sweden.

Due to geographical limitations, the three stations in China can only collect part of the data from the satellite in relays, while the two French stations, both within the Arctic Circle, can collect all the data without break-offs.

"Our two ground stations will transfer data to both mission centers in China and in France for further processing in less than three hours," Castillan said.

"As both sides could use the data from the two instruments, we will share our software developed for the data from the wave spectrometer with the Chinese team, and they will share with us their software for the data from the wind scatterometer."

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