NASA picks recipient of $20.5M contract to develop space weather sensors
· UPINov. 27 (UPI) -- Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory is NASA's choice to build suprathermal ion sensors for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Lagrange 1 Series project for space weather detection.
The Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., will get $20.5 million in federal funding to develop two suprathermal ion sensor instruments at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Fla., NASA officials announced Tuesday.
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