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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
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded Earth Networks a five-year, $2.5 million contract to provide the National Weather Service access to a lightning data. NWS will use the company’s Total Lightning Network in efforts to identify weather conditions, increase weather warning lead times and help forecasters gain situational awareness, Earth Networks said Thursday. The network is designed to monitor in-cloud lightning activity […] More
Esri will participate in a program that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and National Weather Service aim to prepare U.S. citizens and bolster infrastructure against extreme weather threats. Esri said Tuesday the Weather-Ready Nation Ambassador program collaborates with various organizations in an effort to establish preparedness for scenarios during extreme weather. “Our goal is to work with WRN Ambassadors in a whole community […] More
Esri and the U.S. Navy‘s Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command have entered into a cooperative agreement to research and develop geospatial tools for analyzing battlespace environmental conditions at sea. The partnership aims to create new applications that could enhance Esri’s geographic information systems platform as well as improve geospatial intelligence collection during naval warfare, the […] More
The solar panels built for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite ““ R series have been tested, approved and sent to Lockheed Martin‘s facility in Denver to be incorporated onto the spacecraft. NASA said Tuesday that the solar array, which contains five sections that come together to resemble a black wing, was deployed […] More
Exelis has updated its environmental intelligence platform to incorporate a redesigned analytics and camera interface technology for real-time weather data collection. Helios features a built-in mapping system and works as a radar system for professionals to monitor changes in rainfall patterns and surface moisture, Exelis said Monday. Eric Webster, vice president of geospatial systems at […] More
Exelis has partnered with live traffic video aggregator TrafficLand to produce real-time weather condition data for joint customers in the U.S. Exelis will consolidate its weather intelligence and imaging technology with TrafficLand’s network that covers more than 15,000 U.S. Transportation Department traffic cameras, TrafficLand said Monday. Lawrence Nelson, CEO of TrafficLand, said the partnership aims […] More
A team from the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center and Northrop Grumman has flown, for the first time, a Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system through Canadian airspace. The 21-hour flight was part of an environmental data collection mission in the Canadian Arctic intended to study changes in topography and ice caps, Northrop announced Dec. 19. The Northrop-built NASA […] More
Raytheon has moved into the testing phase of an electronic component the company designed to fly on a satellite scheduled to launch in 2015 for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Ambient testing on the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite started in November with the goals of evaluating the system’s mechenical functions, how it measures phenomena […] More
Lockheed Martin has turned the power on for avionics and major electronic subsystems of a weather monitoring satellite the company is building for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The company will ship the GOES-R satellite’s system module from Newtown, Pa. to its space systems facility near Denver for integration with the propulsion module prior […] More
A U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command group has ordered systems and radiosondes from QinetiQ North America for special operations weather teams. QNA designed the Tactical Atmospheric Sounding Kit to measure and broadcast wind speed, wind direction, pressure, temperature and humidity as it elevates to altitudes of up to 45,000 feet on a small weather balloon, QNA said Monday. […] More
NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have received a Harris Corp.-built system to test command and control procedures of a weather satellite Lockheed Martin is building for NOAA. Operators will prepare ground-based satellite command and control operations and processes two years ahead of the scheduled launch of the first GOES-R satellite, Harris said Monday. […] More
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