University of Wisconsin heads into space

The Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin (UW; Madison, WI) will receive $10 million over five years to design and calibrate the Geostationary Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer, which is based in part on technology developed at UW. The spectrometer will be included in NASA's Earth Observing Mission 3, scheduled to be put into orbit in 2003. UW workers will also be responsible for writing the software that will make the instrument's data available to scientists and weather forecasters.