Orbital Sciences Wins $135M Contract To Build Second IceSat-2

BUILDING ICESAT-2: NASA awarded Orbital Sciences Corp. a $135 million contract to build the second Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (IceSat-2), designed to measure the thickness of sea ice and the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. The first IceSat, which orbited from 2003-10, found the...

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