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Article: Lockheed Martin Team Selected to Develop New Solar Mission.
- Article from:
- Defense & Aerospace Week
- Article date:
- July 8, 2009
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The Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) Space Systems Company, the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, and a national and international team of co-investigators have been selected by NASA to develop a new Small Explorer Mission (SMEX) called the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). The Lockheed Martin Space Systems Advanced Technology Center (ATC) in Palo Alto has scientific payload and overall mission responsibility. Construction, integration and testing of the IRIS spacecraft will be done by the Lockheed Martin Space Systems Sensing & Exploration Systems (S&ES) organization. In addition, mission operations and some system engineering will be the responsibility of ...