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Ball Aerospace to Install Lockheed Earth Radiation Measuring Instrument on NOAA Satellite

Ball Aerospace to Install Lockheed Earth Radiation Measuring Instrument on NOAA Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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JPSSBall Aerospace & Technologies Corp. will integrate a Lockheed Martin-built instrument designed to measure global energy balance into the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s Joint Polar Satellite System.

Lockheed designed the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System to provide environmental data for forecasting seasonal climates and the instrument is scheduled to fly onboard the JPSS-1 spacecraft in early 2017, NOAA said Thursday.

NOAA and NASA want the satellite to help scientists observe the Earth’s atmosphere, oceans, vegetation, snow and clouds.

Lockheed developed the CERES instrument to gauge the radiation being emitted and absorbed by Earth.

NOAA has used the scientific instrument to support its Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite and the NASA Earth Observing System.

Other JPSS-1 instruments include a microvave and an infrared sounder, an imaging radiometer and an ozone mapping technology.

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Written by Mary-Louise Hoffman

is a writer of news summaries about executive-level business activity in the government contracting sector. Her reports for ExecutiveBiz are focused on trends and events that drive the GovCon industry to include commercial technologies that private companies are developing for federal government use. She contributes news content to ExecutiveBiz’s sister sites GovCon Wire and ExecutiveGov.

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