ITT Industries Selected To Work On NexGen GOES Weather Satellite Instrument

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The GOES constellation is one third of America's early warning systems for severe weather events like hurricanes and tornadoes. The other systems include NEXRAD radars and the Polar Orbiting satellites known as POES. POES instruments are also developed and manufactured by ITT.

White Plains NY (SPX) Sep 15, 2004
NASA has selected ITT Industries Space Systems Division for a $359 million contract to develop, manufacture and test an advanced Imager for the next generation of geostationary weather satellites operated and funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

The new Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI), will be a primary instrument on NOAA's future Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) beginning with the GOES-R mission in 2008.

The ABI will view the Earth from a 22,300-mile-high-orbit over the equator gathering critical weather data for use by the National Weather Service for routine and severe storm forecasts.

"As recent events have demonstrated, improving weather forecasting remains critical. ITT Industries is proud to continue our long tradition of being a supplier of key instruments for America's early warning weather system," said Hank Driesse, President, ITT Industries, Defense.

"This is a key program win for ITT's new Space Systems Division and we are well positioned to address future opportunities in the $6 billion remote sensing markets."

ITT Industries' Imagers have a long history of service with NOAA starting with the TIROS weather satellites in 1978.

Evolutionary changes to the sensors are flying on board the current GOES spacecraft as well as the Low Earth Orbit POES satellites. Similar instruments being produced by ITT will also be critical to both the European and Japanese weather forecasting systems.

The ABI is an advanced version of the current series of GOES Imagers, but will have a greater number of measurement and data channels, improved spatial resolution and faster Earth coverage rates to improve forecasts of hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and other severe weather.

ITT's major subcontractors in this work include DRS Technologies, SSG Precision Optronics, Northrop Grumman Space Technologies (NGST), and Honeywell Space Systems.

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Hurricane Ivan As Observed By NASA's Spaceborne Atmospheric Infrared Sounder

Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 14, 2004
Hurricane Ivan is the most powerful hurricane to hit the Caribbean in 10 years. On September 7 and 8 it damaged 90 percent of the homes in Grenada and killed at least 16 people as it swept over Grenada, Barbados and the other islands in the area.

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