These are the instruments built for JPSS-2, the third satellite of the Joint Polar Satellite System series, to be named NOAA-21 when it reaches orbit. Next month, the instruments will start ...

As I told my Satellite Meteorology class at the University of Georgia this week, JPSS is a partnership between NOAA and NASA. NASA engineers and launches the weather instruments, and NOAA provides ...

“These instruments are so precise that they can ... were taken by the same instrument currently flying on another satellite. JPSS-1 also has the Ozone Mapper and Profiler Suite (OMPS), which ...

The Joint Polar Satellite System launching on Nov ... To accomplish its mission, JPSS-2 will carry five key instruments into orbit, most of which are also on Suomi NPP and NOAA-20.

“JPSS Satellite carries four sensors; there are two of what we call sounders, which is a fancy word for instruments that give us information,” said Jim Yoe with The National Weather Service.

The satellite is currently power positive ... storm as a hypothetical example to explain what kind of data JPSS-2's scientific instruments will gather. "The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer ...

That satellite, called JPSS-2, will orbit the Earth 14 times each day at an altitude of about 500 miles. From that relatively low height, the satellite's instruments will be able to capture very ...

The two instruments are among the five flying ... the joint civil-military National Polar-orbiting Operational Satellite System. JPSS-1, essentially a copy of Suomi NPP, is slated to launch ...

Under contract to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Ball Aerospace is responsible for designing and building the JPSS-1 satellite bus, the OMPS instrument, integrating all instruments ...

Credit: NASA/NOAA/JPSS Below is a transcript of Bannin ... We’ve been measuring ozone since 1970 with satellite instruments. There was an early one that NASA flew on the Nimbus 4, called the ...

(The first is in orbit, launched on the Suomi NPP satellite in 2011.) Ultimately, five of these sensors will orbit Earth—on four JPSS satellites ... super-sensitive instruments, making the ...

JPSS 1 will share its orbit with Suomi NPP, a satellite launched in 2011 to serve as a test bed for the sophisticated instruments featured in the Joint Polar Satellite System spacecraft.