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ITT Industries Selected To Work On NexGen GOES Weather Satellite Instrument
White Plains NY (SPX) Sep 15, 2004 NASA has selected ITT Industries Space Systems Division for a $359 million contract to develop, manufacture and test an advanced Imager for the next generation of geostationary weather satellites operated and funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The new Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI), will be a primary instrument on NOAA's future Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) beginning with the GOES-R mission in 2008. The ABI will view the Earth from a 22,300-mile-high-orbit over the equator gathering critical weather data for use by the National Weather Service for routine and severe storm forecasts. The GOES constellation is one third of America's early warning systems for severe weather events like hurricanes and tornadoes. The other systems include NEXRAD radars and the Polar Orbiting satellites known as POES. POES instruments are also developed and manufactured by ITT. "As recent events have demonstrated, improving weather forecasting remains critical. ITT Industries is proud to continue our long tradition of being a supplier of key instruments for America's early warning weather system," said Hank Driesse, President, ITT Industries, Defense. "This is a key program win for ITT's new Space Systems Division and we are well positioned to address future opportunities in the $6 billion remote sensing markets." ITT Industries' Imagers have a long history of service with NOAA starting with the TIROS weather satellites in 1978. Evolutionary changes to the sensors are flying on board the current GOES spacecraft as well as the Low Earth Orbit POES satellites. Similar instruments being produced by ITT will also be critical to both the European and Japanese weather forecasting systems. The ABI is an advanced version of the current series of GOES Imagers, but will have a greater number of measurement and data channels, improved spatial resolution and faster Earth coverage rates to improve forecasts of hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and other severe weather. ITT's major subcontractors in this work include DRS Technologies, SSG Precision Optronics, Northrop Grumman Space Technologies (NGST), and Honeywell Space Systems. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links ITT Industries SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Earth Observation News - Suppiliers, Technology and Application
New Legislation Initiated To Support Commercial Remote Sensing Industry
New York NY (SPX) Jan 11, 2006The importance of remotely sensed data and technologies to support natural disasters has prompted attention and action in Washington. New initiatives and legislation authorizing appropriations to the remote sensing industry will be discussed at Strategic Research Institute's U.S. Commercial Remote Sensing Industry conference, scheduled for February 9-10, 2006 in Washington D.C. |
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