NOAA Study Contracts Awarded for GOES-R
(Space News Briefs, 17 December 2004)
Lockheed Martin Corp. and Assurance Technology Corp.
each won study contracts worth about $2 million to work on designs for instruments for new geostationary orbiting
weather satellites, according to a Dec. 17 news release from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration.
The two companies will work on designs for the Space
Environment In-Situ Suite of instruments for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES)-R
series of spacecraft over the course of the next nine months. The GOES-R satellites are expected to begin
launching in 2012.
