{"id":77456,"date":"2014-05-23T01:18:06","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T17:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/exelis-wins-multimillion-dollar-deal-from-jaxa-bolsters-climate-monitoring-focus\/"},"modified":"2014-05-23T01:18:06","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T17:18:06","slug":"exelis-wins-multimillion-dollar-deal-from-jaxa-bolsters-climate-monitoring-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/exelis-wins-multimillion-dollar-deal-from-jaxa-bolsters-climate-monitoring-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Exelis Wins Multimillion-Dollar Deal from JAXA, Bolsters Climate Monitoring Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 05-22-2014] <strong>Exelis<\/strong> received a multimillion-dollar commercial contract to build the primary payload for the second Greenhouse Gas Observing Satellite (GOSAT 2). The <b>Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency <\/b>(JAXA) satellite will use an Exelis-built Thermal and Near Infrared Sensor for carbon Observation-Fourier Transform Spectrometer (TANSO-FTS) to measure atmospheric greenhouse gas density.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis award was a strategic win for Exelis as we move into climate and environmental monitoring to build on our core weather-monitoring capabilities,\u201d said Roberto Mitrevski, vice president of environmental intelligence\/integrated sensing and information solutions at Exelis.<\/p>\n<p><b>Mitsubishi Electric <\/b>is building GOSAT 2, which is scheduled to launch in 2018.&nbsp;Observations from GOSAT 2 are expected to provide better data about how greenhouse gases are distributed, enabling scientists to better understand climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 05-22-2014] Exelis received a multimillion-dollar commercial contract to build the primary payload for the second Greenhouse Gas Observing Satellite (GOSAT 2). The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) satellite will use an Exelis-built Thermal and Near Infrared Sensor for carbon Observation-Fourier Transform Spectrometer (TANSO-FTS) to measure atmospheric greenhouse gas density. \u201cThis award was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}