TRW upsets Lockheed Martin in contract win for weather satellites

TRW Inc. won a $4.5 billion federal contract Aug. 23 to build the nation's next generation of polar-orbiting weather satellites, upsetting Lockheed Martin Corp., which has dominated that sector of the space business for decades. The Defense Department, NASA and NOAA (the National Oceanic and...

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