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NOAA: First JPSS-1 satellite instrument is ready for installation
Description: The first of five instruments that will fly on JPSS-1, NOAA's next polar orbiting environmental satellite, successfully completed pre-shipment review last week. The Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) will be on board the JPSS-1 satellite mission scheduled to launch in early 2017. CERES measures reflected sunlight and thermal radiation emitted by the Earth and builds on the highly successful legacy instruments flown on NOAA's previous Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites (POES) and NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) missions. [Source: NOAA News]
URL: http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2014/20140424_jpss.html
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Source: NOAA News
Publish Date: 4/24/2014
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