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    JPSS-1 Satellite contract awarded to Ball Aerospace

    Oct. 2, 2010
    BOULDER, Colo., 2 Oct. 2010. NASA awarded Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. a contract for the first Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1) satellite. Procured by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), JPSS-1 will ensure continuity of climate and weather data records.
    Posted by John McHaleBOULDER, Colo., 2 Oct. 2010. NASA awarded Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. a contract for the first Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1) satellite. Procured by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), JPSS-1 will ensure continuity of climate and weather data records. Ball Aerospace will be responsible for designing and building the JPSS-1 satellite bus, integrating all instruments, and performing satellite-level testing and launch support. Ball Aerospace is also under contract to deliver NPP, the precursor spacecraft to JPSS-1, as well as the Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS), one of the critical scientific instruments to fly aboard the JPSS-1 spacecraft. NPP recently completed its pre-environmental review in preparation for pre-flight testing. JPSS is the restructured civilian portion of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS). This includes the satellites and sensors that support civil weather and climate measurements, as well as a ground system that will be shared with the Department of Defense weather satellite system. NASA is acting as the acquisition agent to procure these assets. JPSS-1, a clone of the NPP satellite, employs the Ball Commercial Platform (BCP) 2000 spacecraft bus.

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