Mission record
Delta II 7920-10 | JPSS 1 (Joint Polar Satellite System spacecraft No. 1)
Trajectory & orbital insertion · playback
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Provider
United Launch Alliance
Provider type
Commercial
Orbit
SSO
Mission type
Earth Science
Launch site
United States of America
Date
Sat, 18 Nov 2017 09:47:36 GMT
Orbital launch #
#5692 ever
Go probability
100%
Mission
From a 512-mile orbit, tilted 98.7 degrees to the equator and traveling pole-to-pole, the craft will provide imagery, atmospheric temperature and humidity profiles, and land and ocean surface temperature observations, all of which are key ingredients for weather forecasting. In addition, the satellite will measure ozone levels and reflected solar radiation from the planet.JPSS 1 will survey the entire globe twice per day with five sensor packages.The satellite will replace the existing Suomi NPP spacecraft that launched in 2011 for a five-year mission as a gapfiller between NOAA’s legacy weather satellite constellation and the new JPSS generation.
Deployed payloads · 3