NASA Awards NOAA GOES-R Instrument Contract
(NASA Press Release, dated August 24, 2006)
NASA, in coordination with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites
(GOES-R) Program, has selected Assurance Technology Corporation for a
$101.7 million dollar contract.
The contract is for the Space Environment In-Situ Suite (SEISS), which
will provide data for monitoring space environments as an instrument
on the next generation of GOES.
The design and development of the SEISS instruments will be primarily
performed at the contractor's facility in Carlisle, Mass. Once
launched, the SEISS suite will be used primarily by NOAA's Space
Environment Center in Boulder, Colo. The center provides real-time
monitoring, forecasting and warnings of solar and geophysical events
and disturbances.
