ITT Industries To Build Meteorological System For South Korea

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COMS will provide meteorology data to end-users around the globe, oceanography data for the Korean peninsula and experimental communications services in Ka-band.

White Plains NY (SPX) Jul 29, 2005
ITT Industries' has been awarded a contract to build a new meteorological system that will be one of three payloads aboard the first South Korean multi-function geostationary satellite, called COMS.

The prime contractor for COMS is the Europe-based EADS Astrium, which has been awarded a contract by the Korea Aerospace and Research Institute to design and manufacture the satellite.

"The contract with Astrium to provide this meteorological system is an example of our intent to grow our business by extending our technological capabilities into new geographic markets," said James Manchisi, President, ITT Industries Space Systems Division.

"We have a half-century of experience in this type of high-tech initiative, most notably our extensive work on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) series." GOES is used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to track severe weather patterns.

ITT's meteorological system aboard the COMS satellite will provide continuous image monitoring with the extraction of high-resolution meteorological data from its multi-spectral imager.

It will give early warning of hazardous weather conditions, including storms, floods, and sandstorms, and it will provide data on the long-term changes in sea surface temperatures and cloud patterns.

Once Earth observation data is processed, results will be sent via the COMS satellite to weather forecasters and Earth observation centers around the world.

In addition to the meteorological payload, the COMS satellite will have payloads for oceanography and communications.

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Lockheed Martin Solar X-Ray Imager To Be Launched On Noaa Goes-N Spacecraft

Palo Alto CA (SPX) Jul 28, 2005
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