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483-5111 April 10, 1970
MSC 70-41
Houston, Texas --- The NASA Manned Spacecraft Center has awarded a
$1.9 million contract to Itek Corporation_ Lexington_ Massachusetts_ for
design_ development_ and delivery of multispectral photographic equipment
for use in Project Skylab.
The contract calls for the delivery of a six lens camera unit which
will be flown as part of the Earth Resources Experiment Package. The
mu!tispectral camera is part of an integral group of experiments that
will provide data on surface reflectance emmitance and texture along
with determining the effects of atmospheric influences over a broad
portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Ztek will provide one flight and one backup unit along with
associated lenses and magazines. The mu!tispectral unit will utilize
six nigh precision 7OTm_ cameras with matched distortion and focal
length. The lenses will have a focal length of six inches (21.2 degree
field of view) providing approximately 80 naatical miles square surface
coverage from the 235 mile orbital altitude.
Itek is scheduled to deliver the flight hardware by July 1971.