The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are jointly acquiring the next-generation civilian weather and environmental satellite system: the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS). The Joint Polar Satellite System will replace the afternoon orbit component and ground processing system of the current Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites (POES) managed by NOAA. The JPSS satellites will carry a suite of sensors designed to collect meteorological, oceanographic, climatological and geophysical observations of the Earth. The ground processing system for JPSS is known as the JPSS Common Ground System (JPSS CGS). Developed and maintained by Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services (IIS), the CGS is a multi-mission enterprise system serving NOAA, NASA and their national and international partners[l]. Originally designed to support The Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) and JPSS satellites, the CGS has demonstrated its scalability and flexibility to incorporate numerous other national and international missions efficiently and with minimal cost, schedule and risk, while strengthening global partnerships in weather and environmental monitoring. This paper will describe how new missions can be added to the CGS.
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