{"id":87535,"date":"2010-02-05T01:46:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T17:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/northrop-to-build-goes-r-cryocoolers-webb-telescope-sunshield-clears-testing\/"},"modified":"2010-02-05T01:46:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T17:46:20","slug":"northrop-to-build-goes-r-cryocoolers-webb-telescope-sunshield-clears-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/northrop-to-build-goes-r-cryocoolers-webb-telescope-sunshield-clears-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Northrop to Build GOES-R Cryocoolers; Webb Telescope Sunshield Clears  Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[02-04-10] <strong>Northrop Grumman<\/strong> has been selected by<strong> ITT Corp.<\/strong> to provide flight cryocoolers for the sensor payloads on two international geostationary weather satellites, Northrop Grumman announced Feb. 3. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The cryocoolers will be used to reduce thermal noise on the satellites\u2019 space-based sensors. The ITT sensor payloads will be based on the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) that ITT is building for the <strong>U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association<\/strong>\u2019s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R-series (GOES-R).<br \/>\nThe improved imager aims to provide the capability to monitor three times the number of atmospheric events when compared to current generation payloads.<br \/>\nFinancial details of the contract were not disclosed.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Separately, Northrop Grumman announced that the sunshield for the James Webb Space Telescope has passed its critical design review. The design for the telescope, which Northrop is building for <strong>NASA<\/strong> under a contract with the Goddard Space Flight Center, is now certified as meeting NASA\u2019s mission requirements. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The completion of the sunshield\u2019s testing phase has cleared Northrop Grumman to begin manufacturing the unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[02-04-10] Northrop Grumman has been selected by ITT Corp. to provide flight cryocoolers for the sensor payloads on two international geostationary weather satellites, Northrop Grumman announced Feb. 3. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The cryocoolers will be used to reduce thermal noise on the satellites\u2019 space-based sensors. The ITT sensor payloads will be based on the Advanced Baseline Imager [&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-87535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87535"}],"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=87535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}