Liftoff is scheduled for 4:25 a.m. ET on Thursday (Nov. 10).
The Nov. 10, 2022, launch of the JPSS-2 satellite atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket may be visible from broad stretches of the California coast.will be operated by NOAA once it reaches its final destination, a path in low Earth orbit that takes it over the planet's poles. Two other JPSS spacecraft already study Earth from that orbit, circling the globe 14 times every 24 hours and fully surveying the planet twice a day.
In a prelaunch press briefing held on Tuesday , Jordan Gerth, meteorologist and satellite scientist for NOAA's National Weather Service, explained that JPSS-2's contributions, while global in scope, also have very localized applications. In addition to better helping you decide whether or not to grab your umbrella before heading out the door, JPSS-2 will also monitor sea ice, algae blooms, wildfires, ocean surface temperatures and temperatures inJPSS-2 will launch atop an Atlas V 401, a bare-minimum variation of the workhorse rocket with a 13-foot-wide payload fairing, no solid rocket boosters and a single RL10-1 engine powering the vehicle's Centaur upper stage.
Tucked underneath JPSS-2 inside the Atlas V's fairing is another payload, NASA's Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator .is a technology demonstration of an expandable heat shield designed to protect heavy payloads during atmospheric entries.
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