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Barr Associates to Build Filter Assemblies for Ball

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Barr Associates of Westford, Mass., has been selected to develop, manufacture and test multispectral filters for the operational land imager that Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp., of Boulder, Colo., is building for NASA's Landsat data continuity mission (LDCM), expected to be launched in 2011. LDCM will ensure the continued acquisition and availability of Landsat-like data beyond the current Landsat 5 and Landsat 7 missions. The filters are high-performance versions of a filter array technology Barr developed. Each filter assembly is comprised of nine individual spectral bands (i.e.,...Read full article

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