Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. received a contract from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center to design and manufacture two cloud cameras for the Glory mission, which is part of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program.

The satellite will collect data on aerosols and radian energy emitted by the sun. The cameras will be used to distinguish between cloud fields and clear scenes over land and the ocean to collect data on chemical, microphysical and optical properties.

Glory is scheduled to be launched in 2008 for a three-year mission.