ABB Wins Contract With NASA to Enable Exoplanet Research
November 25 2020 - 5:58AM
Dow Jones News
By Joshua Stein
ABB Ltd. said Wednesday that it has been awarded a two-year
contract from NASA to enable the U.S. governmental agency to take
spaceborne photos of planets outside the solar system for the first
time.
The Swiss engineering company said it will provide NASA with
electronic cores for high-sensitivity cameras, which it has
produced in partnership with Canadian imaging technologies company
Nuvu Cameras Inc.
ABB said the cores will travel to space on the Nancy Grace Roman
Space Telescope in 2025.
"The Roman mission is a $3.2 billion project which should be 100
to 1,000 times more powerful for imaging exoplanets than what is
achieved on the ground today," said Marc Corriveau, General Manager
at ABB Measurement & Analytics Canada.
ABB didn't disclose the financial terms of the contract.
Write to Joshua Stein at joshua.stein@wsj.com
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