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Cancel NPOESS – Are We Serious?

The United States must rethink the current plans to cancel or significantly restructure the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program. The case for canceling ...
SpaceNews

Legislation Ends NPOESS Cost-Sharing Arrangement

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Congress is on the verge of sending the White House an omnibus spending bill that provides no additional funding for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental ...
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Ensuring the Climate Record from the NPOESS and GOES-R Spacecraft: Elements of a Strategy to Recover Measurement Capabilities Lost in Program Restructuring

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Military.com

NPOESS Fix Needed, Carter Tells AF; HASC Cuts $300M

Ash Carter, head of Pentagon acquisition, has told the Air Force to come up with alternatives to the deeply troubled NPOESS weather satellite program run by Northrop Grumman. He told me he today that ...
Wired

Climate Sensor Restored to NPOESS Satellite

NOAA, the U.S. Air Force and NASA agreed this week to restore the Total Solar Irradiance Sensor (TSIS) to the first NPOESS (National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System). Set to ...
SpaceRef

NOAA Presolicitation Notice: NPOESS P3I Initiative

Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Acquisition and Grants Office, SSMC4 – Room 7601/OFA61 1305 East West Highway, 7th Floor, Silver Spring, MD, 20910 ...
SpaceRef

Prepared Statement by Susan Mashiko – Hearing: Status Report on the NPOESS Weather Satellite Program

Chairmen Lampson and Miller, Ranking Members Inglis and Sensenbrenner, and Members of the Committee, I appreciate the opportunity to provide an update of our progress on the National Polar-orbiting ...
UPI

NPOESS ground segment has successful demo

OMAHA, March 11 (UPI) -- The U.S. Air Force announced a milestone in the development of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System's ground segment. The NPOESS Integrated ...
Space.com

NPP Satellite Sensor Damaged in Testing

WASHINGTON -- A flight-demonstration sensor for thenext-generation of U.S. polar-orbiting weather satellites sustained damage duringtesting Oct. 11, but program officials said the mission's launch ...
The Engineer

Sensor for NPOESS

NASA and NOAA Wednesday have announced a plan to restore an ozone layer climate sensor to the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program. The Ozone Mapping and ...
Aviation Week

NPOESS preparing to take over Landsat role in 2009

The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) is preparing to take over the job of providing Landsat-type remote sensing imagery starting with the first NPOESS launch ...