http://www.timescall.com/longmont-local-news/ci_32203775?source=AP

The University of Colorado was awarded a nearly $57.4 million contract with NASA's Langley Research Center to build an instrument to be installed on the outside of the International Space Station.

CU's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics will build an instrument in partnership with Langley on its the Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory Pathfinder mission that will measure sunlight reflected from the Earth and will calibrate satellite sensors that monitor the Earth system. The technology is meant to improve the accuracy of the measurements scientists take of changes on Earth, including climate change.