{"id":14193,"date":"2017-11-15T01:31:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T17:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-jpss-1-weather-satellite-prepped-for-encapsulation\/"},"modified":"2017-11-15T01:31:08","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T17:31:08","slug":"photos-jpss-1-weather-satellite-prepped-for-encapsulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-jpss-1-weather-satellite-prepped-for-encapsulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: JPSS 1 weather satellite prepped for encapsulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NOAA\u2019s JPSS 1 weather satellite is enshrouded inside the nose fairing of a Delta 2 rocket, awaiting liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on a seven-year mission to collect data to improve global weather forecasts.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite weighs around 5,025 pounds (2,280 kilograms), according to NOAA, and will orbit more than 500 miles (800 kilometers) above Earth with a suite of sensors and instruments measuring conditions in the atmosphere, monitoring the health of the ozone layer, and detecting how much thermal radiation is reflected off the planet.<\/p>\n<p>The measurements are vital to feed data into numerical forecast models used to generate medium-term weather outlooks extending out to seven days.<\/p>\n<p>The spacecraft was built by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. in Boulder, Colorado, and is based on the contractor\u2019s Ball Configurable Platform (BCP) 2000 satellite design.<\/p>\n<p>JPSS 1\u2019s solar panels are folded up for launch to fit inside the Delta 2 rocket\u2019s 10-foot-diameter (3-meter) payload shroud. These photos show the two halves of the Delta 2\u2019s fairing enclosure inside the mobile service tower at Space Launch Complex 2-West, where technicians prepared to encapsulate the JPSS 1 satellite on top of the rocket.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28575\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28575\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28575\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/26599131449_12d99950df_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"863\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/26599131449_12d99950df_k.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/26599131449_12d99950df_k-235x300.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28575\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: NASA\/USAF 30th Space Wing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28576\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28576\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28576\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/38344528772_d2c79e390c_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"1013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/38344528772_d2c79e390c_k.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/38344528772_d2c79e390c_k-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28576\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: NASA\/USAF 30th Space Wing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28577\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28577\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-28577\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/26599126789_77186edb55_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/26599126789_77186edb55_k.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/26599126789_77186edb55_k-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/26599126789_77186edb55_k-768x452.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/26599126789_77186edb55_k-678x399.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28577\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: NASA\/USAF 30th Space Wing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28578\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28578\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-28578\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/26599124659_742be3de84_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/26599124659_742be3de84_k.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/26599124659_742be3de84_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/26599124659_742be3de84_k-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/26599124659_742be3de84_k-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: NASA\/USAF 30th Space Wing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28579\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28579\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-28579\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/38344516042_0bab0e0e44_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/38344516042_0bab0e0e44_k.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/38344516042_0bab0e0e44_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/38344516042_0bab0e0e44_k-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/38344516042_0bab0e0e44_k-678x453.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28579\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: NASA\/USAF 30th Space Wing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28580\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28580\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-28580\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/38374731791_e6cee09a55_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/38374731791_e6cee09a55_k.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/38374731791_e6cee09a55_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/38374731791_e6cee09a55_k-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/38374731791_e6cee09a55_k-678x453.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28580\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: NASA\/USAF 30th Space Wing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b><i>Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOAA\u2019s JPSS 1 weather satellite is enshrouded inside the nose fairing of a Delta 2 rocket, awaiting liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on a seven-year mission to collect data to improve global weather 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The satellite weighs around 5,025 pounds (2,280 kilograms), according to NOAA, and will orbit more than 500 miles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1665,3128,1807,159,2648,3122,25,975],"class_list":["post-14193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ball-aerospace","tag-bcp-2000-2","tag-delta-2","tag-earth-observation","tag-jpss","tag-jpss-1","tag-launch","tag-noaa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}