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  • Ball Aerospace Helps Prepare NOAA Weather Satellite for Launch - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace Helps Prepare NOAA Weather Satellite for Launch

    Ball Aerospace has helped encapsulate a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather satellite inside the nose cone of a United Launch Alliance-built Delta II launch vehicle and prepared the instrument for its scheduled launch. The company said Thursday the NOAA-NASA team’s Joint Polar Satellite System-1 weather satellite will be deployed from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in […] More

  • Harris Develops Environmental Measurement Instrument for NOAA Weather Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Develops Environmental Measurement Instrument for NOAA Weather Satellite

    Harris has produced an environmental measurement instrument that will launch aboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s Joint Polar Satellite System-1 to support U.S. weather forecasting. The Cross-track Infrared Sounder will serve a component of NOAA’s polar weather satellite program and is designed to analyze and feed millions of atmospheric data points into weather forecast models. Harris said Monday. The company developed […] More

  • Ball Aerospace Tests NOAA Satellite for Environmental Factors; Jim Oschmann Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace Tests NOAA Satellite for Environmental Factors; Jim Oschmann Comments

    Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. has started to test a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather prediction and environmental monitoring satellite in a simulated setting. The Joint Polar Satellite System satellite will undergo a series of acoustic, vibration, and electromagnetic interference and electromagnetic compatibility tests at a facility Boulder, Colorado where the company built the spacecraft, Ball Aerospace said Friday. […] More

  • Ball Aerospace Near Test Phase for NOAA JPSS Satellite; Cary Ludtke Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace Near Test Phase for NOAA JPSS Satellite; Cary Ludtke Comments

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies is approaching the environmental testing phase of its work on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s Joint Polar Satellite System after the integration of four out of the satellite’s five instruments. The company said Monday it has integrated the Cross-track Infrared Sounder, Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite-Nadir and Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System with JPSS-1. […] More