Oct 27 1975
From The Space Library
The Commerce Dept. had awarded Aeronutronic Ford, Inc., a contract for $5 581 824 to design and build a space environment monitor for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which had commissioned it to make constant measurements of energetic solar particles when Tiros-N would be launched in 1978. Tiros-N, a joint mission of NOAA and NASA, would be first of a new series of polar orbiting satellites to be operated by the National Environmental Satellite Service as "a major improvement in our capability of monitoring environmental phenomena," according to Dr. George H. Ludwig, director of NESS's Office of Operations. Detecting changes in the space environment and learning how they affect conditions on earth would help scientists to predict and prepare for these effects. The NOAA space-environment monitor, the only set of sensors facing away from the earth, would provide much of the needed data. (DOC Release G 75-180)
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