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NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterManufacturer
NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterNOAA-20 Mission
11/18/2017
NOAA-20 provides complementary observations from a mid-afternoon orbit as part of the data-sharing cooperation with Eumetsat.
JPSS-2 is equipped with many of the same instruments as NOAA-20 but does not include NASA’s Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES).
NOAA’s LEO program includes the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP), NOAA-20, NOAA-21, and the JPSS-3 and JPSS-4 missions, as well as other leveraged missions and partnerships.
NOAA’s Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the NOAA-20 and Suomi NPP satellites estimated that more than 17 million people in major cities such as New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. were breathing Very Unhealthy air during the early-June 2023 event.
JPSS-1, also known as NOAA-20, launched in 2017.
JPSS-1 was built by Ball Aerospace, launched in 2017, and operates in service as NOAA-20.
Ball Aerospace built the JPSS-1 satellite, now known as NOAA-20, which launched in 2017.