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  • Ball Aerospace Receives Northrop's CERES Instrument for Integration Into NOAA Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace Receives Northrop’s CERES Instrument for Integration Into NOAA Satellite

    Ball Aerospace and Technologies has received the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System instrument built by Northrop Grumman for integration into the Joint Polar Satellite System beginning later this year. Ball Aerospace said Thursday that CERES will help JPSS-1 support the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership‘s weather and climate measurement missions for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. CERES is designed to measure thermal radiation and […] More

  • Linde to Supply NASA With Liquid Nitrogen, Liquid Oxygen; Cliff Caldwell Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Linde to Supply NASA With Liquid Nitrogen, Liquid Oxygen; Cliff Caldwell Comments

    Linde will supply NASA with approximately 360,000 tons of liquid nitrogen and 64,000 tons of liquid oxygen to support the operations of six research and space flight centers across the U.S. The company said Monday the agency uses nitrogen for pressurization, purging, inerting and pneumatic actuation, while oxygen is used as oxidizer for cryogenic rocket engines. The research and space […] More

  • Lockheed Team Delivers Infrared Camera System to NASA; Jeff Vanden Beukel Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Team Delivers Infrared Camera System to NASA; Jeff Vanden Beukel Comments

    Lockheed Martin and the University of Arizona have delivered an infrared camera to NASA‘s Goddard Space Flight Center, where that technology will be installed on the James Webb Space Telescope. The near infrared camera joins three other instruments at the Goddard center and that camera is intended to serve as JWST’s central imaging system, Lockheed said Monday. […] More