Lockheed Martin Space Systems
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| Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company has a long history of service to the meteorological and environmental community. LMSSC built and launched the world’s first weather satellite, TIROS I, in 1960 and since that time has deployed over 100 satellites (accommodating over 600 instruments) to observe the Earth and the sun, including all of the NOAA and Defense Department polar-orbiting operational satellites (POES and DMSP). Continuing this proud heritage, LMC was recently awarded the contract to build the spacecraft for the latest generation of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite series R (GOES-R). LMSSC also builds instruments that satellites carry, such as the Cryogenic Limb Array Etalon Spectrometer (CLAES) that flew on the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite and detected chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in the stratosphere, and the Solar X-ray imager (SXI) now flying on GOES-N. For GOES-R LMSSC is building two new instruments: the solar ultraviolet imager (SUVI) and the geostationary lightning mapper (GLM). |
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