GOLETA, Calif., April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTNA;
RTNB) announced today that it has been awarded a contract to provide the
Advanced Meteorological Imager for Japan's MTSat-1R, a multi-functional
satellite for air traffic control and weather observations. Raytheon is teamed
with Space Systems/Loral, the prime contractor for this Japan Ministry
of Transport project.
The satellite will provide communications and navigational services for
aircraft and will gather weather data for users throughout the entire Asia-
Pacific region. The MTSat-1R meteorological mission will provide timely, high
quality, full disk multi-spectral imagery for operational weather needs over
Japan, East Asia and Australia.
"We're pleased to have Raytheon on our team providing the meteorological
instrument," said Dr. John Klineberg, president of Space Systems/Loral. "They
have a strong heritage of delivering the latest technology in geostationary
weather imagers, and we know this system will continue to provide the Asia-
Pacific region with state-of-the-art data."
The Advanced Meteorological Imager onboard the satellite, which is planned
for a five-year mission starting in 2003, will generate updated data every 30
minutes and will provide the weather imagery shown on local news in Japan and
throughout western Pacific. It will support weather forecasting in the Asia-
Pacific region by measuring Earth radiation in four infrared bands
and one visible wavelength band to map out cloud distribution, Earth surface
temperature, cloud top temperature, water vapor distribution and wind field.
"We have been focusing our efforts toward re-entering and winning a
significant share of the operational meteorological satellite
marketplace for more than three years," said Arthur F. Napolitano, Raytheon's
director of Space Electro-Optical programs. "The MTSat-1R win is a giant step
for us toward reaching that goal." Work on the system will be performed at
Raytheon's Santa Barbara Remote Sensing organization in Goleta, Calif.
MTSat is the successor to the GMS 1-5 satellite series. Raytheon provided
the meteorological instrument, called the Visible/Infrared Spin Scan-
Radiometer (VISSR), for all five GMS satellites, starting in 1974. The current
satellite (GMS-5) went on-line in June 1995 and continues to provide Japan
with daily weather images and data.
Raytheon Company is a global technology leader that provides products and
services in the areas of commercial and defense electronics and business and
special mission aircraft. It has operations throughout the United States and
serves customers in more than 80 countries.
Contact:
Mark Day
310.647.0784
http://www.raytheon.com
SOURCE Raytheon Company
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