The two indefinite quantity contracts are anticipated to be worth up to approximately $1.7 billion. The Goddard Space Flight Center mission operation and support contract period is five years with a limited two-year extension; the Earth network services contract covers a five-year period.

"Honeywell's mission support will include pre-launch conceptual studies and planning, on-orbit flight controls and final decommissioning at the Goddard Space Flight Center," said Garrett Mikita, President, Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc.

"This includes robotics science missions and support for the Solar Heliospheric (SOHO) spacecraft, which performs observations of the sun. We also will provide support and maintenance for the Hubble Space Telescope program and satellites that examine the Earth's atmospheric content."

For the Earth network services agreement, Honeywell will provide program management, ground and space network operations, systems engineering, hardware and software development, and maintenance and support.

"This includes NASA's ground network, including suborbital operations, and the Tracking Data Relay Satellite System, a constellation of nine satellites that is the primary architecture of the communications system for the Space Shuttle, International Space Station programs and Hubble Space Telescope," Mikita said.

Honeywell's support operations will be located at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and Earth network services at GSFC, the White Sands Complex in Las Cruces, N.M., and Wallops Flight Facility at Wallops Island, Va.

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