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  • Orbital ATK's Cygnus OA-5 Spacecraft Leaves ISS to Start Secondary Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK’s Cygnus OA-5 Spacecraft Leaves ISS to Start Secondary Missions

    An Orbital ATK-built Cygnus spacecraft has departed from the International Space Station after a commercial resupply mission to start two secondary mission objectives. The S.S. Alan Poindexter spacecraft will launch the Spacecraft Fire Experiment-II to help study the behavior of fires in microgravity, then deploy CubeSats into orbit to support weather forecasting, Orbital ATK said Monday. The space vehicle […] More

  • GeoOptics, Spire Global to Provide Data Support for NOAA's Commercial Weather Data Pilot - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GeoOptics, Spire Global to Provide Data Support for NOAA’s Commercial Weather Data Pilot

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded contracts to GeoOptics and Spire Global worth $695,000 and $370,000, respectively, to provide data support for NOAA’s Commercial Weather Data Pilot project. NOAA said GeoOptics and Spire Global will supply space-based global navigation satellite system radio occultation data in efforts to demonstrate the quality and potential value of commercial data to the agency’s weather forecasts and warnings. […] More

  • Orbital ATK Completes Initial Design Review for 3 NOAA Weather Satellites; Steve Krein Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Completes Initial Design Review for 3 NOAA Weather Satellites; Steve Krein Comments

    Orbital ATK has completed the spacecraft preliminary design review for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s three Joint Polar Satellite Systems. The company collaborated with representatives from NOAA and NASA to subject JPSS-2, JPSS-3 and JPSS-4 to the four-day PDR that kicked off Aug. 29 at Orbital ATK’s Gilbert, Arizona-based facility, Orbital ATK said Monday. The […] More

  • Unisys Gets National Weather Service Radar Data Contract Extension - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys Gets National Weather Service Radar Data Contract Extension

    Unisys Corp. has received a two-year contract extension to continue its supply of real-time radar data to the National Weather Service in an effort to aid in NWS’ forecasting activities. Unisys will gather radar information from multiple sources into a single interface to help meteorologists predict severe weather, Unisys said Wednesday. The company has worked with […] More

  • Cray Lands German National Meteorological Service Contract for Supercomputer Update & Expansion - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cray Lands German National Meteorological Service Contract for Supercomputer Update & Expansion

    Cray has secured an $11 million contract from Germany’s national meteorological service to update and expand the agency’s supercomputers and storage systems used at its weather prediction centers. The company will provide updates for the agency’s two XC30 supercomputers and two Sonexion storage systems in an effort to address weather forecast accuracy and other meteorological requirements, […] More

  • SES' US Arm to Link NOAA With O3b Satellite Tech for Weather Data Distribution - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SES’ US Arm to Link NOAA With O3b Satellite Tech for Weather Data Distribution

    SES Government Solutions will provide O3b Networks‘ satellite services and ground equipment to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency‘s National Weather Service Office in American Samoa under a one-year contract. The SES federal market subsidiary said Monday NOAA seeks to grow its coverage for the distribution of weather forecast information outside the continental U.S. and foster wider broadband connectivity. O3b’s “fiber in the […] More

  • Exelis Meteorological Imager Moves to Final Production; Eric Webster Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelis Meteorological Imager Moves to Final Production; Eric Webster Comments

    Exelis will move forward to final production of its Advanced Meteorological Imager after the system completed a design review conducted by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute. The company said Wednesday the now-finished review moves the program closer to the planned 2018 launch of AMI onboard the GEO-KOMPSAT-2A satellite. Eric Webster, environmental intelligence vice president and director at Exelis, said the imager works to build knowledge of weather and […] More

  • Japan Weather Satellite Tracks Typhoon Maysak Through Exelis Imager - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Japan Weather Satellite Tracks Typhoon Maysak Through Exelis Imager

    Japan’s national weather agency has used an Exelis imaging instrument on the Himawari-8 weather satellite to collect weather and environmental images such as Typhoon Maysak and the clouds and snow around Mount Fuji. The company said Friday the imager works to support the satellite’s weather forecasting and tracking, fire detection, air pollution analysis, vegetation assessment and volcanic ash monitoring operations. Eric Webster, […] More

  • Harris Completes Tests on NOAA's GOES-R Ground Segment; Romy Olaisen Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Completes Tests on NOAA’s GOES-R Ground Segment; Romy Olaisen Comments

    Harris Corp. has completed testing and verification of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R Series ground segment ahead of the satellite’s delivery to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The company said Monday the tests checked the GOES-R ground system’s capability to generate weather data for NOAA and interface with the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System of the National Weather […] 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

  • Spire to Launch 20 Small Weather Satellites This Year; Peter Platzer Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Spire to Launch 20 Small Weather Satellites This Year; Peter Platzer Comments

    Spire is lining up the launch of its small weather satellites that will work to collect atmospheric data to fill a gap in weather forecasting capabilities. The company said Thursday the “shoebox-size” satellites will leverage the GPS Radio Occultation technique to monitor changes in weather and climate. It added that the network will eventually perform 10,000 readings a day to build up the accuracy of forecasting […] More

  • Greg Mandt: NOAA Completes Installation of 6 Key Instruments Onboard GOES-R - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Greg Mandt: NOAA Completes Installation of 6 Key Instruments Onboard GOES-R

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration moved closer to its March 2016 launch date for the next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R-Series with the completed integration of all instruments aboard the weather forecasting platform. The GOES-R now carries an advanced baseline imager, a geostationary lightning mapper, the Space Environment In-Situ Suite, Extreme Ultraviolet and X-ray […] More