ITT Exelis has won a contract to develop antennas for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to use for multinational atmospheric studies. Exelis will provide 25 multiband global navigation satellite systems for studies on meteorology, ionospheric research, climatology and space weather, Exelis said Thursday. Paul Eyring, Exelis senior director of programs for antennas, sensors and microelectronics, said the [...]
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A Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. team has reviewed the design of a weather monitoring satellite for NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The company said it reviewed the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 spacecraft before more than 100 representatives from the agencies and instrument providers for the JPSS-1 spacecraft. Completing the review means the [...]
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Raytheon provided the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration two backup facilities for satellite operations before Superstorm Sandy hit the East Coast, the company said Tuesday. The company deployed the Joint Polar Satellite System Common Ground System facilities with the goal of providing meteorologists, emergency response teams and other stakeholders weather information during the storm. Bill [...]
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Lockheed Martin has delivered the core structure of a weather forecasting satellite to NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for propulsion system integration work, the company said Monday. The company’s space systems unit designed the structure for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite–R Series, aimed at enclosing the satellite’s propulsion system and supporting the [...]
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A Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) common ground system supporting the Joint Polar Satellite System has added a new satellite provided by Japan’s space agency to its list of environmental missions worldwide. Raytheon said the ground system now supports five missions for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Defense Department and a Europe-based intergovernmental organization responsible [...]
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Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. will incorporate a data communication payload on a satellite the federal government will use to predict weather and measure atmospheric conditions. The company said the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 satellite will have a five-instrument payload and use two data networks, one of them having a protocol similar to a FireWire [...]
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A Northrop Grumman-built NASA satellite, designed for a six-year mission life, has hit its tenth year on-orbit. The company said Monday the Aqua satellite, originally launched May 4, 2002, has collected data related to the Earth’s climate and water cycles for 10 years. Aqua acts as a primary satellite in NASA’s Earth observing system and [...]
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Federal agencies are increasingly using mobile operating systems other than Blackberry, a trend that is matched outside government as well, NextGov reports. According to research by the Government Business Council, the 77 percent of federal managers that used Blackberry phones in 2009 has since reduced to less than half. The research group also found iPhone [...]
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has started using a new weather forecast computer model that updates hourly every hour to see 18 hours ahead, NOAA announced Tuesday. Rapid Refresh was developed by the agency’s Boulder, Colo-based Earth system research lab and its National Centers for Environment Prediction in Camp Springs, Md. Weather updates will play [...]
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Lockheed Martin has completed design and system reviews for a satellite series that will be used for weather forecasting, the company announced Tuesday. The team conducted a series of presentations for systems and subsystems that will comprise NASA’s and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s geostationary operational environmental satellite-R series. Demonstrating the GOES’ design and [...]
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