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Northrop Grumman is a US defence and aerospace company with a substantial space systems division.^[1] The company designed and manufactured the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS), a cross-track microwave sounder built for NASA and NOAA under the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) programme.^[2]^[3] ATMS provides atmospheric temperature and moisture profiling from polar orbit, and first-year on-orbit performance was documented after its initial deployment.^[4]

Manufactures

AMSU-AMicrowave Radiometer
10 bands / 23.8 - 89 GHz
Operator pricingPricing not publicly listed by operator
ATMSMicrowave Radiometer
3 bands / 23.8 - 183.31 GHz
Operator pricingPricing not publicly listed by operator
SSMISMicrowave Radiometer
6 bands / 19.35 - 183.311 GHz
Operator pricingPricing not publicly listed by operator

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Sources

[1]Northrop Grumman - Wikipediacommunity2026-06-20
[2]Northrop Grumman - Advanced Technology Microwave Sounderoperator engineering2026-06-11
[3]Northrop Grumman to Complete ATMS for NASA JPSS (2011)operator engineering2026-06-20
[4]The Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS): First Year On-Orbit - NASA NTRSagency doc2026-06-20

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@misc{eoatlas:companies:northrop-grumman,
  title = {Northrop Grumman},
  author = {{EO-Atlas}},
  publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
  url = {https://eo-atlas.org/companies/northrop-grumman}
}