Jul 1 1980
From The Space Library
NASA announced selection of General Electric Space Division, Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, RCA Astro-Electronics, and Rockwell International to negotiate 9-month $750,000 fixed-price contracts for parallel definition studies of alternate ways to implement the NOSS. Studies would include flight segments, ground segments, and orbit operations.
NOSS would acquire ocean-surface data for delivery to selected users in weather and sea-ice forecasting, climate research, fisheries management, and ocean acoustic-propagation predictions. A large free-flying high-inclination spacecraft carrying a coastal-zone color scanner, scatterometer, altimeter, and large-antenna multichannel microwave radiometer would measure the ocean's emitted and reflective energy in radio, infrared, and visible frequencies to satisfy both civilian and defense needs. DOC's NOAA and DOD would cooperate in the NOSS program with NASA, which had given GSFC project responsibility. (NASA Release 80-103)
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