The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) built by Raytheon Intelligence & Space features a day-night band to capture imagery in low light. Pictured is a VIIRS day-night band image of Hurricane Maria, a powerful storm that struck Puerto Rico in September 2017.

Raytheon Intelligence & Space is designing a prototype weather satellite for the U.S. Space Force Space and Missile Systems Center that draws heavily on technology from the firm’s Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer.

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Debra Werner is a correspondent for SpaceNews based in San Francisco. Debra earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree in Journalism from Northwestern University. She is a recipient...