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A new weather observatory that will track storms across the globe as it orbits from pole to pole has been trucked to its launch site in California for a long-awaited ascent into space this November.
The first spacecraft in the Joint Polar Satellite System, JPSS No. 1, is targeting a liftoff Nov. 10 at 1:47:03 a.m. local time (4:47:03 a.m. EST; 0947:03 GMT) atop a United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
JPSS is the next American polar-orbiting weather satellite series that will collect data needed for long-range forecasts and track environmental trends. It is is a collaboration between NOAA for operational weather needs and NASA for climate research.
Built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. in Boulder, Colorado, the spacecraft left its factory for the 1,530-mile road-trip to Vandenberg, arriving early Friday, Sept. 1 at the Astrotech payload processing facility on the base.
It has been a struggle to reach this point after several technical issues with the satellite kept it in Boulder nearly a year longer than planned.
JPSS 1 is equipped with a suite of five instruments:
The Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS)
– Atmospheric water vapor, temperature and pressure profiler
– Built by Northrop Grumman
The Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS)
– Visible and infrared imagery and take sea-surface temperatures
– Built by Raytheon
The Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS)
– Hyperspectral sounder for atmospheric temperature and moisture
– Built by Harris Corporation
The Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS)
– Monitor concentration of ozone in the Earth’s atmosphere
– Built by Ball Aerospace
The Clouds and the Earth Radiant Energy System (CERES)
– Reflected sunlight and Earth thermal radiation measurements
– Built by NASA’s Langley Research Center
JPSS 1 will replace the existing Suomi NPP spacecraft that launched in 2011 as a gapfiller between NOAA’s legacy weather satellite constellation and the new JPSS generation.
Sources:
https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/09/...tellite-shipped-to-launch-base-in-california/
The first spacecraft in the Joint Polar Satellite System, JPSS No. 1, is targeting a liftoff Nov. 10 at 1:47:03 a.m. local time (4:47:03 a.m. EST; 0947:03 GMT) atop a United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
JPSS is the next American polar-orbiting weather satellite series that will collect data needed for long-range forecasts and track environmental trends. It is is a collaboration between NOAA for operational weather needs and NASA for climate research.
Built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. in Boulder, Colorado, the spacecraft left its factory for the 1,530-mile road-trip to Vandenberg, arriving early Friday, Sept. 1 at the Astrotech payload processing facility on the base.
It has been a struggle to reach this point after several technical issues with the satellite kept it in Boulder nearly a year longer than planned.
JPSS 1 is equipped with a suite of five instruments:
The Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS)
– Atmospheric water vapor, temperature and pressure profiler
– Built by Northrop Grumman
The Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS)
– Visible and infrared imagery and take sea-surface temperatures
– Built by Raytheon
The Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS)
– Hyperspectral sounder for atmospheric temperature and moisture
– Built by Harris Corporation
The Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS)
– Monitor concentration of ozone in the Earth’s atmosphere
– Built by Ball Aerospace
The Clouds and the Earth Radiant Energy System (CERES)
– Reflected sunlight and Earth thermal radiation measurements
– Built by NASA’s Langley Research Center
JPSS 1 will replace the existing Suomi NPP spacecraft that launched in 2011 as a gapfiller between NOAA’s legacy weather satellite constellation and the new JPSS generation.
Sources:
https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/09/...tellite-shipped-to-launch-base-in-california/