Civil Npoess Weather Sat Replacement Slipping
By Jefferson Morris
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) is expected to slip 12-14 months as a result of Congress’s failure to pass new appropriations for fiscal 2011.
JPSS is the civil follow-on to the canceled National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (Npoess) on which NOAA was partnered with the U.S. Air ...
