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- [Text from the NPP Launch Blog, http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/NPP/launch/launch_blog.html ]
The NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) spacecraft lifted off aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Oct. 28, 2011 at 5:48 a.m. EDT. The NPP spacecraft will build on more than four decades Earth observation to help us better understand our climate.
[Text and Image Source, NPOESS Preparatory Project home page, http://npp.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ]
The National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) is a joint mission involving the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) and the NPOESS Integrated Program Office (IPO). The NPP mission collects and distributes remotely-sensed land, ocean, and atmospheric data to the meteorological and global climate change communities as the responsibility for these measurements transitions from existing Earth-observing missions such as Aqua, Terra and Aura, to the NPOESS. It will provide atmospheric and sea surface temperatures, humidity sounding, land and ocean biological productivity, and cloud and aerosol properties. For the IPO, NPP provides risk reduction with an opportunity to demonstrate and validate new instruments and processing algorithms, as well as to demonstrate and validate aspects of the NPOESS command, control, communications and ground processing capabilities prior to the launch of the first NPOESS spacecraft. Group: Platform_Details Entry_ID: SUOMI-NPP Group: Platform_Identification Platform_Category: Earth Observation Satellites Platform_Series_or_Entity: Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Short_Name: SUOMI-NPP Long_Name: Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership End_Group Group: Platform_Associated_Instruments Short_Name: CRIMSS Short_Name: ATMS Short_Name: CRIS-NPOESS Short_Name: OMPS Short_Name: VIIRS Short_Name: CERES-FM5 End_Group Group: Orbit Repeat_Cycle: 16-day Orbit_Type: LEO > Low Earth Orbit > Polar Sun-Synchronous End_Group Creation_Date: 2009-02-27 Online_Resource: http://npp.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Online_Resource: http://www.nasa.gov/NPP/ Online_Resource: http://www.ipo.noaa.gov/index.php?pg=npp Sample_Image: http://jointmission.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/NPP_Satellite_with_Earth.gif Group: Platform_Logistics Launch_Date: 2011-10-28 Launch_Site: Vandenberg Air Force Base, USA Primary_Sponsor: USA/NASA Primary_Sponsor: USA/NOAA End_Group End_Group
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