The Government of Canada has awarded two contracts—valued at $5.4M—to ABB Inc and Honeywell in Canada in support of the High-altitude Aerosols, Water vapour and Clouds (HAWC) mission. The HAWC mission—part of the NASA-led Atmosphere Observing System mission—involves 14 Canadian universities, Environment and Climate Change Canada, and NRC Canada. ABB and Honeywell will develop concepts and technologies for the Thin Ice Clouds and Far InfraRed Emissions (TICFIRE) instrument, which is one of three instruments that will be used on the HAWC satellite. Led by scientifically by the Université du Québec à Montréal, TICFIRE will gather data that can be used to understand how heat escapes from Earth.
Canada
| CSA (HAWC)
| Newswire (ABB)
