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ITT Industries To Build Meteorological System For South Korea
White Plains NY (SPX) Jul 29, 2005 ITT Industries' has been awarded a contract to build a new meteorological system that will be one of three payloads aboard the first South Korean multi-function geostationary satellite, called COMS. The prime contractor for COMS is the Europe-based EADS Astrium, which has been awarded a contract by the Korea Aerospace and Research Institute to design and manufacture the satellite. "The contract with Astrium to provide this meteorological system is an example of our intent to grow our business by extending our technological capabilities into new geographic markets," said James Manchisi, President, ITT Industries Space Systems Division. "We have a half-century of experience in this type of high-tech initiative, most notably our extensive work on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) series." GOES is used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to track severe weather patterns. ITT's meteorological system aboard the COMS satellite will provide continuous image monitoring with the extraction of high-resolution meteorological data from its multi-spectral imager. It will give early warning of hazardous weather conditions, including storms, floods, and sandstorms, and it will provide data on the long-term changes in sea surface temperatures and cloud patterns. Once Earth observation data is processed, results will be sent via the COMS satellite to weather forecasters and Earth observation centers around the world. In addition to the meteorological payload, the COMS satellite will have payloads for oceanography and communications. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links ITT Industries SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Weather News at TerraDaily.com
MSG2 Will Advance Long Term Monitoring Of Planetary Energy Balance
London UK (SPX) Dec 23, 2005This week's launch of MSG-2 will ensure that satellite images continue to be available to European weather forecasters well into the next decade. It also marks a new chapter in a long-term space experiment measuring the available energy that drives the weather as a whole, and helping to establish how much the Earth is heating up. |
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