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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
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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
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NASA Sets GOES-S Weather Satellite Launch for March 1
NASA has announced the launch date of a second weather satellite in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration“™s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R Series as March 1. GOES-S will lift off at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s 41st Space Launch Complex in Florida aboard an Atlas V rocket during a two-hour window opening at 5:02 p.m. Eastern time, NASA said Wednesday. The Lockheed […] More
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Lockheed to Begin Final Processing of NOAA’s GOES-S Weather Satellite
Lockheed Martin has shipped the next weather satellite in the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite““R series to a company facility in Titusville, Florida, to undergo final processing and pre-launch preparation. GOES-S, the second of four satellites in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s GOES-R constellation, is scheduled for March 1 liftoff atop United Launch Alliance‘s Atlas V 541 rocket at […] More
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Marillyn Hewson: Lockheed Aims to Reduce F-35A Cost to $85M Per Aircraft by 2019
Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson has said the company aims to reduce the price of the F-35A fighter jet to $85 million or lower per aircraft by 2019 as part of its goal to save over $5 billion on the F-35 program. Hewson said in a speech delivered Tuesday at Lockheed“™s media day event in Arlington, Virginia, […] More
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Lockheed to Start Environmental, Mechanical Tests on NOAA GOES-S Weather Satellite
Lockheed Martin will begin environmental and mechanical tests on a satellite that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will use to support U.S. weather observation operations. Lockheed said Tuesday the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites – S weather satellite is the second of four GOES-R series geostationary weather satellites and will undergo tests that simulate launch and […] More
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NOAA, NASA Launch Lockheed-built GOES-R Weather Satellite
The first of the four National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration“™s geostationary weather satellites launched Saturday aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 6:42 p.m. Eastern time. NOAA said Saturday the Lockheed Martin-built Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R system will be called GOES-16 once it reaches the orbit within two weeks and will work to provide […] More
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ULA Sets Nov. 19 Launch for NOAA GOES-R Satellite
The launch of the first of the four National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration“™s geostationary weather satellites has been rescheduled from Nov. 16 to Nov. 19, pending clearance from the Eastern Range. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R system will lift off aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket from space launch complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in […] More
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ULA Rocket to Send NASA-NOAA Weather Satellite Into Orbit
United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, is scheduled to launch a weather monitoring satellite Nov. 19 for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R will lift atop ULA’s Atlas V 541 configuration rocket from the Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, ULA said Sunday. […] More
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NASA Reschedules NOAA GOES-R Satellite Launch to Nov. 16
NASA has moved from Nov. 4 to Nov. 16 the launch of the first of the four National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration“™s geostationary weather satellites. The space agency said Tuesday the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R system will be called GOES-16 once it reaches the geostationary orbit and will work to capture images of weather patterns […] More
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Harris Completes 4th Baseline Imaging Tool for NOAA GOES-U Weather Satellite; Eric Webster Comments
Harris Corp. will hand over the fourth Advanced Baseline Imager for integration with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration“™s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite after the company completed a pre-ship assessment of ABI with NASA and NOAA. Harris said Tuesday the ABI instrument is scheduled to fly aboard the GOES-U spacecraft in 2024 and will work to […] More