Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) this week said it has signed a contract with Poland’s Maritime Office in Gdynia for upgrading the SSC Maritime Surveillance System originally installed in 1993 on LET 410 SP-MBA aircraft.
“The aircraft is used for national maritime patrol missions over the Baltic Sea as well as within the HELCOM cooperation where Poland is an active member.” Olov Fast, general manager of the Airborne Systems Division at SSC, said in a statement.
The contract is worth about $1.7 million and comprises a thorough upgrade of the system to MSS 6000 standard. The system upgrade will be completed in early 2010.
CSC recently supplied one new MSS 6000 system to Estonia and in the summer of 2009 it will deliver the first of two systems to the Finnish Border Guard.
“This will improve the protection of the Baltic Sea by strengthening the surveillance capacity and also by facilitating cooperation between the member states,” Fast said. “We are very proud that our system has been chosen for this work.”