GREENBELT, Md., June 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says it's selected the Sigma Space Corp. to provide hydrospheric and biospheric support services.
The Lanham, Md., corporation is to provide support to the Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Under the five-year, $120 million contract, Sigma will support research involving satellite remote sensing, as well as field and aircraft instruments for measuring Earth, oceanic, biospheric and atmospheric processes; scientific and engineering support for the development and calibration of remote sensing instruments; and development of data systems for the production and distribution of satellite products, NASA said.
