{"id":84786,"date":"2011-06-01T00:45:17","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T16:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasa-selects-fibertek-for-icesat-2-mission\/"},"modified":"2011-06-01T00:45:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T16:45:17","slug":"nasa-selects-fibertek-for-icesat-2-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasa-selects-fibertek-for-icesat-2-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Selects Fibertek for ICESat-2 Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[05-31-11]&nbsp;<b>NASA <\/b>has selected <b>Fibertek<\/b> to design, develop, fabricate, test and deliver laser systems to be used for the ice, cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) mission. NASA announced the deal May 26. The ICESat-2 satellite is scheduled to launch in 2016.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., manages the ICESat-2 Project. The total estimated value of the cost, plus award fee contract, is just under $27 million. The period of performance is from the date of award through launch plus 38 months.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ICESat-2 is the second generation of the ICESat observatories. ICESat-2 will use precision laser-ranging techniques to measure the topography of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, and the thickness characteristics of Arctic and Antarctic Sea ice. ICESat-2 supports NASA\u2019s Earth Science program by helping scientists develop a better scientific understanding of the Earth system and its response to natural or human-induced changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[05-31-11]&nbsp;NASA has selected Fibertek to design, develop, fabricate, test and deliver laser systems to be used for the ice, cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) mission. NASA announced the deal May 26. The ICESat-2 satellite is scheduled to launch in 2016. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., manages the ICESat-2 Project. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-84786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84786"}],"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=84786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}