Amid JPSS Changes, Free Flyer-1 Payload Remains the Same

摘要

If the U.S. Congress approves the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) plan to trim costs in its next-generation civilian polar-orbiting weather satellite program, one detail that will not change is the payload for the Free Flyer-1 satellite slated to launch in 2016. In the wake of the 2010 cancellation of a civil-military National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System program, NOAA is working on the civil-only Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS). The first operational weather satellite in this program, JPSS-1, is set to launch in 2016 aboard one of the remaining Delta 2 rockets in United Uaunch Alliance's inventory.