The second-to-last Delta II rocket lit up the night over California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base in the early hours on Saturday, taking to the skies with the JPSS-1 Weather Satellite for NASA and NOAA, set to become America’s primary meteorological spacecraft in Polar Orbit.
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The penultimate Delta II rocket lifted off from SLC-2W at California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base on Saturday, November 18, 2017 at 9:47:36 UTC with the first satellite in the Joint Polar Satellite System
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The penultimate Delta II rocket lifted off from SLC-2W at California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base on Saturday, November 18, 2017 at 9:47:36 UTC with the first satellite in the Joint Polar Satellite System.
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The penultimate Delta II rocket encountered a second launch scrub on Wednesday, keeping the first satellite in the Joint Polar Satellite System grounded for at least another day
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The penultimate Delta II rocket stands ready for an early morning liftoff from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base on Tuesday with the first operational satellite of the Joint Polar Satellite System, the next generation of low-orbiting weather satellites operated by NASA and NOAA.
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The JPSS-1 weather satellite was installed atop its Delta II launch vehicle on October 24, 2017 for final integrated testing ahead of a November 2017 liftoff to relieve the Suomi NPP satellite and become the primary polar-orbiting weather asset of NOAA and the U.S. National Weather Service.
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Delivered to Vandenberg Air Force Base on September 1st, 2017, the JPSS-1 meteorological satellite undergoes final pre-launch processing
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The penultimate Delta II launch vehicle undergoes assembly at Space Launch Complex 2W at Vandenberg Air Force Base through the spring and summer 2016 for the launch of the first satellite in the Joint Polar Satellite System
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Components for the Delta II rocket slated to launch the first satellite in the Joint Polar Satellite System are delivered to Vandenberg Air Force Base for final acceptance tests before rolling out for stacking
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The first satellite of NASA & NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System is assembled by Ball Aerospace and integrated with five meteorological instruments to collect data for operational weather forecasting and climate science.
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