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Air Force Awards NASA Contracts As Part Of Hosted Payload Solutions

Pat Host

Wednesday, August 20th, 2014

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Air Force Awards NASA Contracts As Part Of Hosted Payload Solutions

Artist's illustration of NASA's TEMPO concept. Photo: Space Systems Loral.

The Air Force recently awarded $800,000 contracts to three companies to study the feasibility of accommodating a NASA earth science instrument as a hosted payload on spacecraft. Boeing [BA], Orbital Sciences [ORB] and Space Systems/Loral (SSL) were each awarded six-month period of performance contracts for NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) study program, according to the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (AFSMC). The contracts will determine the feasibility of accommodating the TEMPO instrument as a hosted payload…

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