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[Satellite TODAY 12-03-11] Northrop Grumman has won a contract worth $5.75 million from the U.S. Air Force to provide research and development for the Modular Architecture for Signal-processing, Tracking and Exploitation Research (MASTER) program, the company announced. The contract was awarded by the Space and Missile System Center’s Development Planning Directorate.
MASTER supports the government ground processing effort for the Air Force’s Commercially Hosted IR Payload (CHIRP) program’s on-orbit period. An experimental CHIRP sensor is hosted on a commercial SES satellite operating in geosynchronous orbit over the United States. The SES satellite was successfully launched in September.
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