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The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite ( VIIRS) is a sensor designed and manufactured by the Raytheon Company on board the polar-orbiting Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP), NOAA-20, and NOAA-21 weather satellites. [1] VIIRS is one of five key instruments onboard Suomi NPP, launched on October 28, 2011. [2]
Website. raytheonintelligenceandspace .com. Raytheon Intelligence & Space ( RIS) was one of the four business segments of U.S. defense and aerospace conglomerate RTX Corporation. [5] Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, RIS has a total employment of 39,000 and 2019 sales of US$15 billion. Roy Azevedo is the segment's president.
GPS Block III (previously Block IIIA) consists of the first ten GPS III satellites, which will be used to keep the Navstar Global Positioning System operational. Lockheed Martin designed, developed and manufactured the GPS III Non-Flight Satellite Testbed (GNST) and all ten Block III satellites. [7] The first satellite in the series was ...
GOES-18 will then drift to 136.8 west and perform the remainder of PLT at that location near GOES-West. The 0.4 degree offset from GOES-17 will allow X-band RDL downlink from both GOES-17 and GOES-18. The 0.2 degree offset from 137.0W meet ground system product generation requirements. Both GOES-17 and GOES-18 images will be remapped to 137.0W.
Raytheon Intelligence, Information, and Services ( RIIS or IIS) is a business unit of Raytheon Company headquartered in Dulles, Virginia. [2] IIS specializes in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, advanced cybersecurity services; weather and environmental services, and information-based services for homeland security.
Raytheon is a developer and manufacturer of radars (including AESAs ), electro-optical sensors, and other advanced electronics systems for airborne, naval and ground based military applications. Examples include: APG-63/APG-70 radars for the F-15 Eagle. APG-65/APG-73/APG-79 radars for the F/A-18 Hornet.
GPS / INS / semi-active radar homing /passive LWIR infrared homing seeker (KW) The RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 ( SM-3) is a ship-based surface-to-air missile used by the United States Navy to intercept short- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles as a part of Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System. [5]
AN/SPY-6 system overview. In October 2013, "Raytheon Company (RTN) [was] awarded an almost $386m cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase design, development, integration, test, and delivery of Air and Missile Defense S-band Radar (AMDR-S) and Radar Suite Controller (RSC)."