Steve Cole
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-0918
stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov
CONTRACT RELEASE: C11-024
NASA AWARDS CONTRACT FOR ICESAT-2 LASER SYSTEMS
WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected Fibertek of Herndon, Va., to design,
develop, fabricate, test and deliver laser systems to be used for the
Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) mission
scheduled to launch in 2016. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in
Greenbelt, Md., manages the ICESat-2 Project.
The total estimated value of the cost-plus-award-fee contract is
$26,083,242. The period of performance is from the date of award
through launch plus 38 months.
The contractor will provide four spaceflight lasers and one test laser
for the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System instrument on the
ICESat-2 Observatory. The spaceflight laser systems consist of the
optical, electrical, mechanical, material, wire harnessing, thermal
control, flight software, flight firmware and support equipment. Work
will be performed at the contractor's facility.
ICESat-2 is the second generation of the ICESat observatories.
ICESat-2 will use precision laser-ranging techniques to measure the
topography of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, and the
thickness characteristics of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice. ICESat-2
supports NASA's Earth Science program by helping scientists develop a
better scientific understanding of the Earth system and its response
to natural or human-induced changes.
For more information about the ICESat Program, visit:
http://icesat.gsfc.nasa.gov/icesat2/
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