Boeing Lands Satellite Contract.El Segundo-based Boeing (language) BOEING - An early system on the IBM 1130. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16, May 1959]. Satellite Systems has been awarded a $130.8 million contract to build two orbiting weather instruments This is a list of devices used for recording various aspects of the weather. Instrumentation
The contract from the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System includes options for four other systems that would bring the total value to $298 million. Government officials said the low-orbiting satellites, known as Conical conical /con·i·cal/ (kon´i-k'l) cone-shaped. con·i·cal or con·ic adj. Of, relating to, or shaped like a cone. Microwave Imager Sounders, will save money by converting existing weather systems used by the Department of Defense and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Noun 1. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - an agency in the Department of Commerce that maps the oceans and conserves their living resources; predicts changes to the earth's environment; provides weather reports and forecasts floods and hurricanes and . |
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