Harris has successfully completed the critical design review (CDR) of the ground segment of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R Series (GOES-R) satellite.
The CDR will determine the detailed design of the ground segment and its operations in the complete GOES-R system.
Harris Government Communications Systems GOES-R programmes vice president Ray Thorpe said that the milestone establishes the detailed design of the ground segment.
"During the CDR, Harris demonstrated early deployment of key functions of the system, illustrating its design maturity and efforts to reduce risk," he said.
The completion of the review marks the attainment of approval from NOAA to begin the ground segment’s implementation phase under the GOES-R programme.
The implementation phase consists of around 70 software and hardware design reviews, in addition to operational reviews of the mission management, product generation, product distribution, enterprise management and infrastructure abilities of the system.
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By GlobalDataAs a prime contractor and systems integrator for the ten-year contract, the company will build the GOES-R ground segment, which is expected to process nearly 60 times more data against the current satellites and offer weather products to the National Weather Service and some 10,000 other clients.
According to Harris, the satellite’s ground segment includes receiving and processing of satellite data, generating and delivering products from satellite data, and command and control of operational satellites.
The company said that the next generation GOES-R system featuring enhanced image resolution will raise the imagery coverage rate of Earth’s surface from every 30 minutes now to every five minutes in normal conditions, as well as every 30 seconds during harsh weather conditions.
The GOES-R system will also allow continuous monitoring of all lightning activities including in-cloud and cloud-to-ground, and enhance severe weather warning time.
