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GOES-U Successfully Launches to Orbit
The GOES-U weather observation satellite we built for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) successfully launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 5:26 p.m. ET on June 25. GOES-U, the final satellite in NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) – R series of four satellites, will provide advanced weather imagery, atmospheric measurements and real-time…
AQUA Celebrates 10 Years in Orbit
Northrop Grumman built the Aqua space platform and integrated its NASA-provided science instruments. The spacecraft is based on Northrop Grumman’s modular, standardized T330 bus, a design with common subsystems easily scalable to the mission-specific needs of this and future earth observing missions. Comfortable weight, power and footprint margins readily accommodate payload replacement/refinement without impacting the…
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