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  • Northrop Tech Offers Stabilization Support to Lockheed-Built GOES-17 Weather Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Tech Offers Stabilization Support to Lockheed-Built GOES-17 Weather Satellite

    A Lockheed Martin-built weather satellite that launched in March is equipped with Northrop Grumman’s Scalable Space Inertial Reference Units that work to provide attitude control and sensor pointing capabilities for the spacecraft. Dean Ebert, vice president of navigation and positioning systems at Northrop’s mission systems business, said in a statement published Monday the Scalable SIRU is […] More

  • ULA Launches Lockheed-Built GOES-S Weather Satellite for NOAA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA Launches Lockheed-Built GOES-S Weather Satellite for NOAA

    A weather satellite that Lockheed Martin built for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration took off Thursday aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S system will be called GOES-17 once it reaches the geostationary orbit within two weeks and will undergo a checkout and validation phase […] More