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Our Heritage
Earthrise From the lunar orbiter missions of the 1960s to the new James Webb Space Telescope, ITT has been helping NASA and other government and commercial customers visualize and understand critical events happening on earth, in the air, or in space in time to take effective action with innovative solutions, including: Space-Based Imaging Solutions — Government Lunar Orbiters To map the Moon's surface, NASA's five Lunar Orbiters each carried an ITT camera and photographic laboratory. Apollo 11 Neil Armstrong took extreme close-up pictures of the lunar soil with a unique stereoscopic camera built by ITT in record time. GPS Navigation For more than 30 years, ITT has been designing, developing, integrating and manufacturing navigation payloads for the highly successful Department of Defense NAVSTAR Global Positioning System. Our payloads have been on every GPS satellite ever launched. Meteorological Systems For over 50 years, ITT has supplied multi-spectral Imagers and Sounders to the Nation’s civil and military weather forecasting services. ITT systems are deployed as operational assets, providing 24/7 coverage from geostationary and low earth orbit. Hubble Space Telescope ITT fabricated Hubble's back-up mirror — an exercise in optical perfection. Chandra X-ray Observatory ITT designed and built the high-resolution telescope for Chandra, NASA's space-based x-ray observatory. James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) The successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, ITT will integrate and test the optical telescope and develop the Focal Plane Assembly package on the Near-Infrared Spectrograph detector on board the JWST which is scheduled to launch in 2013. Space Based Imaging Solutions — Commercial IKONOS Satellite ITT designed and built the landmark digital camera system for IKONOS — a commercial remote satellite owned by Space Imaging, Inc. The September 1999 launch of the IKONOS Satellite marked the beginning of the long-awaited era of commercial one-meter-resolution, Earth imaging. QUICKBIRD Satellite In 2001, DigitalGlobe launched it's QUICKBIRD Satellite, one of the first commercial Remote Sensing satellites capable of gathering sub-meter resolution earth images. On board is a sensor subsystem designed and built by ITT that can capture 0.61-meter resolution panchromatic imagery and 2.4-meter multi-spectral imagery. NextView Satellites ITT Space Systems Division was selected to build the advanced imaging systems for both satellites in the NextView program — WorldView-1 and GeoEye-1. Sponsored by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), the NextView program is designed to assure the availability of high-resolution imagery from the next series of U.S. commercial satellites. Ground-Based Imaging Systems W.M. Keck Observatory When traditional polishing techniques couldn't shape the Keck's primary mirrors to specifications, project officials turned to ITT. Hobby-Eberly Telescope ITT opticians fabricated the Hobby-Eberly Telescope's primary mirrors on a short production schedule, and at low cost. Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) ITT worked on a spectroscopic telescope nearly identical to Hobby Eberly in South Africa — the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT). |
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