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The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at CU will build the Total and Spectral SolarIrradiance Sensor, or TSIS, to fly on one of the Nationak Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite Syste satellites that have been planned for 15 The satellite system is a joint government project of the Nationa Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Department of Defense and NASA. Northrup Grumman is the lead contractodr onthe project, and Boulder-based is a sub-contractor buildintg a test satellite for the system. The TSIS sensord is only one of the NPOESSz instruments being built by a CU said inits announcement.
It was amon several features of the NPOESSx system to be stricken over the years in budget-cutting moves only to be restored NOAA pumped $74 million in stimulus funding into TSIS and anothedr NPOESS sensor to jump-start their development and prevenr delays in the ultimatre collection of climate data of the satellite system. Sen. Mark D-Colorado, was chairman of a U.S. House Representatives aerospac committee when some of the NPOESS program changees werebeing debated. On Friday, he praised the announcemengt the sensor will be built and hailer the job creation it will lead to in Colorado because CU was chosen forits development.
“Withoutt the sensor we would have losta 30-year recore of crucial weather and climate Udall’s said in a writtehn statement. “There was a time when it was unclear whethee this sensor would ever be so I am especially pleased to hearthis news.”
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