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NASA Gives Northrop CERES Instrument Contract Worth Up To $44.5 Million

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Monday, May 4th, 2009

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NASA gave Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] a contract worth up to $44.5 million to provide an instrument that would fly on the long-delayed National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System, or NPOESS, C1 mission. The NASA facility, the Langley Research Center at Hampton, Va., awarded the contract to Northrop to support the design, manufacture, assembly, test and calibration of the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System, or CERES, Flight Model 6 instrument. Lawmakers have criticized NPOESS, expressing concern that not…

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