Instrument Studies Awarded For The NOAA Goes-R Spacecraft

EARTH OBSERVATION

GOES-R will be the follow-on system to the GOES-I-P. Operating as a single end-to-end program with new and enhanced capabilities, the GOES-R system will provide environmental information over a greater geographical location in less time and at higher resolutions.

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 22, 2004
On behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NASA has selected two contractors to perform design and risk reduction for the Space Environment In-Situ Suite (SEISS) of instruments for NOAA's next generation of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES)-R Series of spacecraft.

The SEISS is a suite of three particle sensor instruments: a magnetospheric particle sensor (MPS), a solar and galactic proton sensor (SGPS) and an energetic heavy ion sensor (EHIS).

These instruments will provide data essential to NOAA's Space Weather Operations and to the long-term record of changing conditions in the space environment. The SEISS is one of 5 instruments planned for launch in 2012 on the first GOES-R series of spacecraft.

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company Advanced Technology Center (LMATC) will receive a firm-fixed contract in the amount of $2 million. They will perform the work at the LMATC facility in Palo Alto, Calif. And at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas.

Assurance Technology Corporation (ATC) will receive a firm-fixed price contract in the amount of $1,827,499. They will perform the work at the ATC facilities in Carlisle and Chelmsford, Mass., and at AMPTEK, Inc., in Bedford, Mass. Both contracts have a nine-month period of performance.

Under the terms of the contracts, the firms will study the minimum SEISS operational performance (threshold) tasks, as well as goal performance requirements and tasks.

These satellites will provide critical atmospheric, oceanic, climatic, solar and space infrared and imaging data of the entire United States surface and atmosphere to support all of NOAA's mission goals in ecosystems, climate, weather and water, and commerce and transportation.

The overall GOES Program is managed by NOAA, which establishes requirements, provides funding, and distributes environmental data for the United States. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., teams with NOAA to acquire and manage the study, design and development of each of the GOES satellites. Specific management roles and responsibilities for NOAA and NASA/GSFC are being finalized and will be detailed at a later time.

SPACEWAR

Northrop Grumman Awarded Meteorological And Oceanographic Support Contract

Herndon VA (SPX) Dec 17, 2004
Northrop Grumman has been selected by the U.S. General Services Administration to provide system engineering and program support for the U.S. Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command and Naval Oceanographic Office.

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