JPSS-2 satellite instruments ready for delivery to the spacecraft Business Announcement. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center ...

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 ...

The Joint Polar Satellite System-1, a joint project of NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, ... JPSS-1’s instruments will scan the entire globe twice each day.

The JPSS-2 satellite will take measurements with its four instruments, including the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite or VIIRS, which acts as the “eyes” of the satellite.

An artist's impression of the JPSS-2 satellite in orbit above Earth. ... JPSS-2 will carry five key instruments into orbit, most of which are also on Suomi NPP and NOAA-20.

The JPSS-2 satellite will be renamed "NOAA 21" once it becomes operational, likely a few months after launch. Special instruments on board will make it a valuable tool for tracking wildfires ...

In less than a week, a new weather satellite called JPSS-2 will be launched into space.JPSS stands for Joint Polar Satellite System. This new satellite will he ...

The first satellite in the JPSS program, the Suomi-NPP spacecraft, launched in 2011. The second, NOAA-20, followed suit in 2017. (NOAA-20 was known as JPSS-1 until it reached its final orbit.) ...

Because the gap-filler would use instruments now slotted for JPSS-1, Exelis would have to speed up work on the Cross-track Infrared Sounder it is now building for JPSS-2 under an undefinitized ...

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.

Meteorologist Nick Bannin spoke with Larry Flynn, a research scientist with NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) about NOAA’s brand new ‘NOAA-21 Satellite.’ ...

Two of the five instruments scheduled to fly on the nation’s next polar-orbiting weather satellite, NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System -1, have been integrated to the spacecraft bus by prime ...