Press Release
Date: 7/1/2007Arvada, CO
N-Science Corporation Joins the CICERO Mission Team
N-Science (N-Sci) announced today that they have entered into an agreement with Broad Reach Engineering (BRE) to provide engineering services and components for a new spacecraft system called CICERO. This new contract evolved out of a previous N-Sci/BRE joint effort investigating alternative spacecraft power system designs. The details of the contract are proprietary at this time.
CICERO stands for "Community Initiative for Continuing Earth Radio Occultation". CICERO will consist of 100 micro-sats in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) performing GPS & Galileo Atmospheric Radio Occultation (GNSS-RO). CICERO will deliver critical data on the state of the Earth's atmosphere and ionosphere, in near real-time, to forecasters and researchers worldwide, and will do so with an accuracy and vertical resolution greater than is possible with the current operational space based systems.
CICERO will deliver profiles of the atmospheric density, pressure, temperature, moisture, and geo-potential heights along with global ionospheric electron distribution and a host of derived data products. Principal applications are global weather forecasting, hurricane and storm track prediction, climate change research, and space weather monitoring.
CICERO is on track toward an initial launch of 10 spacecraft in October of 2010, with follow-on launches soon after to reach a "sustained array" of 100 spacecraft. This full constellation will deliver nearly 100,000 atmospheric profiles on a daily basis.
The CICERO Mission is headed by GeoOptics, an international consortium with offices in Houston TX, Washington DC, and New York NY. BRE is a provider of avionics, software, and space systems engineering with offices in Golden CO and Tempe AZ. N-Sci is a provider of Sensors & Instruments, Optical Black Coatings, and Concept Development & Engineering with offices in Arvada CO.
The Concepts Development Group is responsible for CICERO project work at N-Sci.
N-Science Corp Contacts:
Dr. Dan Ladner
drladner@nscicorp.com
www.nscicorp.com
Dan Scheld
dlscheld@nscicorp.com
www.nscicorp.com
Cell: 303-718-9502
For more info on CICERO:
cicero@broadreachengineering.com
info@geooptics.com
www.geooptics.com