NASA Awards Contract for Next-Gen NOAA Space Weather Sensors

Johns Hopkins will Deliver Two Suprathermal Ion Sensor Instruments

NASA, on behalf of NOAA, has selected Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory of Laurel, Maryland, to build the Suprathermal Ion Sensors for the Lagrange 1 Series project, part of NOAA’s Space Weather Next Program.

This cost-plus-fixed-fee contract is valued at approximately $20.5 million and includes the development of two Suprathermal Ion…