AURORA, Colo., Dec. 3 -- Raytheon Co. has been selected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for a one-year study contract worth $2.5 million, as an initial step toward the next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) system. Raytheon will identify advanced architecture concepts for GOES-R, a series of satellites that provide observations of the Earth and its environment. The instruments aboard the satellites measure the emitted and reflected radiation of the Earth from which cloud cover, atmospheric temperature and moisture can be...Read full articleRelated content from Photonics MediaArticlesPhotonics Technologies at the Fore as First James Webb Space Telescope Images ReleasedThe first images from the James Webb Space Telescope are being released today, following an initial release of a “teaser” image July 7, and a subsequent preview image released July 11...Photonics.com 7/12/2022Army Demonstration Advances Directed Energy SystemWith an advancement to the U.S. Army’s Directed Energy Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense (DE M-SHORAD) system, a team led by Raytheon Intelligence and Space, and by Kord, a subsidiary of KBR,...Photonics.com 5/25/2022ABB Acquires Real Tech; Kopin Receives $20.5M Weapon Optics Contract: Week in Brief: 1/12/24ABB, a leader in electrification and automation technology, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Canadian-based Real Tech, a supplier of optical sensor technology that enables...Photonics.com 1/12/2024