ITT Bids Goodbye to GOES-10 Weather Satellite as it Builds Next-Generation GOES-R Imager

GOES-10, which contained an imaging sensor and sounder designed and built by ITT’s Space Systems Division, was launched in April 1997 for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). From its geosynchronous orbit 22,000 miles above earth, GOES-10 tracked some of the most infamous tropical cyclones in history, including hurricane Mitch, which devastated parts of Central America in 1998; and hurricane Katrina, which ravaged the Gulf Coast in 2005. NOAA decommissioned the GOES-10 satellite on December 2nd, 2009 after 12 years of service—seven years longer than its planned five-year mission.

“GOES-10 really pushed the state of the art in the mid ‘90s,” said Dave Leber, deputy director for commercial and space sciences at ITT Space Systems. “We designed the GOES-10 payload to last five years, and it performed admirably for 12 years. That’s a testament to the reliability that ITT builds into all of its remote sensing systems – including the Advanced Baseline Imager payload we’re currently building for the NOAA GOES-R satellite.”   

GOES-R, scheduled to launch in 2015, will fly the ITT-designed imager that will provide 48X more data, with twice the spatial resolution, six times the scan rate, and more than three times the number of spectral channels than the current GOES imager.

Read the NOAA GOES-10 de-orbit announcement: http://bit.ly/6MUsVJ
Learn more about the GOES-R imager: http://bit.ly/8izYJt


About ITT Space Systems
ITT’s Space Systems Division (www.ssd.itt.com) headquartered in Rochester, N.Y., provides innovative remote sensing and navigation solutions to customers in the Department of Defense, intelligence, space science and commercial aerospace to help them visualize and understand critical events happening on Earth, in the air, or in space in time to take effective action. Leveraging comprehensive capabilities, ITT’s solutions span from image and data collection through processing and dissemination. Key applications include high-resolution commercial imaging; space science; climate and environmental monitoring; intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; GPS navigation; image and data processing and dissemination; and space control and missile defense.

About ITT Corporation
ITT Corporation is a high-technology engineering and manufacturing company operating on all seven continents in three vital markets: water and fluids management, global defense and security, and motion and flow control. With a heritage of innovation, ITT partners with its customers to deliver extraordinary solutions that create more livable environments, provide protection and safety and connect our world. Headquartered in White Plains, N.Y., the company generated 2008 sales of $11.7 billion. www.itt.com