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    The Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) is the latest generation of U.S. polar-orbiting, non-geosynchronous, environmental satellites. JPSS will provide...
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    Suomi NPP (category Weather satellites of the United States)
    National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP), previously known as the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory...
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  • ESA-provided MetOp satellite operated by EUMETSAT utilize POES-heritage instruments for the purpose of data continuity. The Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1...
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    The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) was to be the United States' next-generation satellite system that would...
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    NOAA-20 (category Weather satellites of the United States)
    latest generation of U.S. polar-orbiting, non-geosynchronous, environmental satellites called the Joint Polar Satellite System. NOAA-20 was launched on...
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    NOAA-21 (category Weather satellites of the United States)
    latest generation of U.S. polar-orbiting, non-geosynchronous, environmental satellites called the Joint Polar Satellite System. NOAA-21 was launched on...
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  • continuing Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) project, was to replace the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) project...
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    observation satellites are Earth-orbiting spacecraft with sensors used to collect imagery and measurements of the surface of the earth. These satellites are used...
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    2023, a joint venture of Intuitive Machines and KBR was awarded a contract worth up to $719 million to support NASA's Joint Polar Satellite System. In September...
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    generations of satellites are being developed to succeed the current polar orbiting and geosynchronous satellites: the Joint Polar Satellite System) and GOES-R...
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    Satellite contributing to the deployable solar array hinges, and the Joint Polar Satellite System leading the database team. Harris has said his most memorable...
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  • Sounder, one of the instruments aboard the Joint Polar Satellite System Central Registration and Identification System (CRiS), the UK's national register of...
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    instruments were launched on the Earth Observing System and the Joint Polar Satellite System. The Terra satellite, launched in December 1999, carried two (Flight...
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  • information of different layers in the atmosphere. JPSS or Joint Polar Satellite systems are expected to launch in 2027. This project will be an  intergovernmental...
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    miles (824 km) above the surface in a polar orbit. The nighttime views were obtained with the new satellite's "day-night band" of the Visible Infrared...
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    three crewed missions in 1973–1974, and the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, a joint United States-Soviet Union low Earth orbit mission in 1975. Apollo set several...
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  • Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on board the Suomi NPP and Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) series satellites capable of night time imaging. DNB Arena (disambiguation)...
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    named Anders' Earthrise and 8 Homeward by the Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN) of the International Astronomical Union. The craters...
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    The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) is an expendable medium-lift launch vehicle designed and operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation...
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    Curiosity ※ Deep Space 2 Rosalind Franklin ⁂ InSight Mars 2 Mars 3 Mars 6 Mars Polar Lander ↓ Opportunity Perseverance ※ Phoenix Schiaparelli EDM Sojourner Spirit...
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  • political support for its vision of an even more ambitious Space Transportation System entailing reusable Earth-to-orbit shuttles, a permanent space station, lunar...
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    incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Solar System Programs: Outer Planets Flagship. NASA This article incorporates text from...
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    Advanced very-high-resolution radiometer (category Satellite meteorology)
    the Joint Polar Satellite System spacecraft. NOAA has at least two polar-orbiting meteorological satellites in orbit at all times, with one satellite crossing...
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    Curiosity ※ Deep Space 2 Rosalind Franklin ⁂ InSight Mars 2 Mars 3 Mars 6 Mars Polar Lander ↓ Opportunity Perseverance ※ Phoenix Schiaparelli EDM Sojourner Spirit...
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    NASA's series of Great Observatories satellites are four large, powerful space-based astronomical telescopes launched between 1990 and 2003. They were...
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  • flown with Mars Polar Lander in 1999; (failed) Earth Observing 1 (EO-1) – (launched 2000) Space Technology 5 – a cluster of three satellites investigating...
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    NASA (redirect from Space Systems Center)
    and operation of polar and geosynchronous weather satellites. The relationship typically involves NASA developing the space systems, launch solutions...
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    satellites. Additionally, the VIIRS sensor is mounted on both Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (Suomi-NPP or SNPP) and Joint Polar Satellite...
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    primarily used to monitor the weather and climate of the Earth. Satellites can be polar orbiting (covering the entire Earth asynchronously), or geostationary...
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    Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS), also known as Michibiki (みちびき), is a four-satellite regional satellite navigation system and a satellite-based augmentation...
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