{"id":82651,"date":"2012-08-14T17:29:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T09:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasa-finalizes-jpss-1-contracts\/"},"modified":"2012-08-14T17:29:16","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T09:29:16","slug":"nasa-finalizes-jpss-1-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasa-finalizes-jpss-1-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Finalizes JPSS-1 Contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[08-14-12] <b>NASA<\/b> has completed negotiations with several satellite companies and has finalized its contracts for the spacecraft and instruments that comprise the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1), NASA confirmed Aug. 13.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;JPSS-1 is the <b>U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u2019s (NOAA)<\/b> second next-generation operational polar-orbiting satellite and is scheduled to launch in 2017. JPSS-1 will follow the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite to maintain continuity of NOAA\u2019s weather and environmental observations.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;NASA signed its final contract with <b>Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems<\/b> in June for the Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument. The Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) contract was signed with <b>Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems<\/b> in April.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;NASA completed the JPSS-1 spacecraft and the Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite instrument contract with <b>Ball Aerospace<\/b> in 2011. The contract to <b>Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems<\/b> for the JPSS Ground System also was completed in 2011, as was the Crosstrack Infrared Sounder (CrIS) instrument contract with <b>ITT Exelis<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[08-14-12] NASA has completed negotiations with several satellite companies and has finalized its contracts for the spacecraft and instruments that comprise the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1), NASA confirmed Aug. 13. &nbsp; &nbsp;JPSS-1 is the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u2019s (NOAA) second next-generation operational polar-orbiting satellite and is scheduled to launch in 2017. JPSS-1 [&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-82651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82651"}],"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=82651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}