Redwire Technology Enabling NOAA Mission for Critical Earth Weather Monitoring
24 2월 2022 - 10:30PM
Business Wire
Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW), a leader in space
infrastructure for the next generation space economy, is supplying
critical navigation components for NOAA’s GOES-R series of
weather-monitoring satellites. The third satellite in the series,
GOES-T, is scheduled to launch on March 1, 2022, on a United Launch
Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape
Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Redwire delivered six Coarse Sun Sensor (CSS) pyramids and a
Fine Sun Sensor Assembly, consisting of a high accuracy Fine Sun
Sensor Head and an electronics processing unit. These were provided
under a 2015 contract with Lockheed Martin. The CSS pyramids
contain unique baffles for specific field of view geometries, and
will be used for solar array pointing, sun acquisition and
spacecraft navigation. Like its predecessors, the GOES-T spacecraft
contains a Sun Pointing Platform (SPP) that provides a stable
reference to track the seasonal and daily movement of the sun
relative to the spacecraft. The Fine Sun Sensor will be used to
accurately point the SPP directly sunward.
“Redwire is proud to partner with Lockheed Martin, NASA and NOAA
on this critical mission to broaden our understanding of weather
and climate,” said Don Wesson, leader of Redwire’s Sensors
business. “As a key mission partner, we are leveraging our
flight-proven technology to enable missions that can provide
critical information that will greatly improve our lives here on
Earth.”
The GOES satellites help meteorologists observe and predict
weather that affects public safety, including severe weather like
thunderstorms, tornadoes and hurricanes. GOES-T will provide data
for the U.S. West Coast, Alaska, Hawaii, Mexico, Central America
and the Pacific Ocean.
The CSS pyramids demonstrate a long record of engineering
success. CSS technology has successfully performed in highly
elliptical, geostationary and low and medium orbits about the
Earth, on various interplanetary missions to the Moon and Mars and
in deep space. CSS technology is currently providing critical
navigation capability on NASA’s Lucy mission, the first mission to
Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. Redwire’s Fine Sun Sensor has flown on
more than 100 spacecraft. The high accuracy pointing sensor has
provided sun pointing capabilities for the Solar and Heliospheric
Observatory (SOHO), Solar X-Ray Imager (SXI) and Solar Radiation
and Climate Experiment (SORCE) programs.
Decades of flight heritage and continual breakthroughs in new
space technology enable Redwire to deliver critical sensors and
other components to government and commercial customers, improving
capabilities in low-Earth orbit and beyond.
About Redwire
Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW) is a leader in space
infrastructure for the next generation space economy, with valuable
IP for solar power generation and in-space 3D printing and
manufacturing. With decades of flight heritage combined with the
agile and innovative culture of a commercial space platform,
Redwire is uniquely positioned to assist its customers in solving
the complex challenges of future space missions. For more
information, please visit www.redwirespace.com.
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