{"id":81426,"date":"2013-03-05T23:17:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T15:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/noaa-assumes-operational-control-of-suomi-npp-environmental-satellite\/"},"modified":"2013-03-05T23:17:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T15:17:37","slug":"noaa-assumes-operational-control-of-suomi-npp-environmental-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/noaa-assumes-operational-control-of-suomi-npp-environmental-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA Assumes Operational Control of Suomi NPP Environmental Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[03-05-13] The Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite, a partnership between <strong>NASA<\/strong> and the <strong>National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<\/strong> (NOAA), was transitioned to NOAA for operational organization control.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; Suomi NPP continues the observations of Earth from space that were pioneered by NASA\u2019s Earth Observing System. The satellite provides important data for understanding long-term climate change, and for increasing our ability to improve weather forecasts in the short term.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;NASA launched Suomi NPP in 2011 and the <strong>Joint Polar Satellite System<\/strong> (JPSS) program based at <strong>NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center<\/strong> in Greenbelt., Md., has been helping maintain the instruments in addition to providing the ground system, with NOAA institutional organizations providing operational mission support. The NOAA operations group now assumes responsibility for Suomi NPP.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;The Suomi NPP mission is a bridge between NASA\u2019s Earth-observing missions and NOAA\u2019s next-generation JPSS. Suomi NPP carries new instruments for Earth observation that JPSS will use operationally. The first satellite in the JPSS series, JPSS-1, is targeted for launch in early 2017.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[03-05-13] The Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite, a partnership between NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), was transitioned to NOAA for operational organization control. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Suomi NPP continues the observations of Earth from space that were pioneered by NASA\u2019s Earth Observing System. The satellite provides important data for understanding [&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":[],"class_list":["post-81426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81426"}],"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=81426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}