The Albuquerque-based engineering firm Applied Technology Associates has won a $27.8 million Naval Research Laboratory contract to build a new sensor and telescope for mapping satellites and other objects in deep space.Once built, the new technology could provide a huge boost to government efforts to fully chart the estimated 1,200-plus satellites and objects floating around some 20,000 miles out, said Andy Suzuki, project manager for the contract and head of ATA operations in Washington, D.C. That's something the government's Ground-Based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance System, or GEODSS, has been working on for more than three decades."It could potentially provide the biggest upgrade in 20 years to the GEODSS network," Suzuki said.Read more on NewsOK.com
