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The University of Colorado at Boulder signed a $92 million contract today to build a satellite instrument to help forecast solar disturbances.
The university signed the contract with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
The instrument package, which will be designed and built at CU-Boulder’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, is slated to launch on future generations of NOAA satellites, according to a university press release.
The contract calls for the delivery of the first instrument package in 2012 and options for three additional packages over the subsequent decade.
The first scheduled launch is for 2014.
