{"id":86123,"date":"2010-09-27T21:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ball-aerospace-to-build-nasa-noaa-jpss-1-satellite\/"},"modified":"2010-09-27T21:37:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T13:37:00","slug":"ball-aerospace-to-build-nasa-noaa-jpss-1-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ball-aerospace-to-build-nasa-noaa-jpss-1-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Ball Aerospace to Build NASA, NOAA JPSS-1 Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[09-27-10] <strong>NASA<\/strong> and the <strong>U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<\/strong> (NOAA) have awarded a sole source contract to <strong>Ball Aerospace &amp; Technologies Corp.<\/strong> to design, build and test the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1), NASA announced Sept. 24.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The $248 million fixed-price contract has a performance period that extends through February 2015. NOAA will be responsible managing the JPSS program with NASA acting as the program\u2019s procurement agent.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ball will be responsible for integrating government-furnished instruments on the JPSS-1 satellite and its launch vehicle, while supporting launch operations and on-orbit checkout. The spacecraft, which constitutes the restructured civilian portion of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS), is expected to launch in 2014. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; The JPSS Earth observation system includes the satellites and sensors supporting civil weather and climate measurements and a shared ground infrastructure with the U.S. Department of Defense weather satellite system. Data and imagery obtained from JPSS aims to increase the timeliness, accuracy and cost-effectiveness of public warnings and forecasts of climate and weather events, reducing the potential loss of human life and property. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[09-27-10] NASA and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have awarded a sole source contract to Ball Aerospace &amp; Technologies Corp. to design, build and test the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1), NASA announced Sept. 24. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The $248 million fixed-price contract has a performance period that extends through February 2015. NOAA will [&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-86123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86123"}],"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=86123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}