NASA's NPP satellite completes comprehensive testing
Monday, August 8, 2011 - 15:32
in Astronomy & Space
The NASA National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project has successfully completed its most comprehensive end-to-end compatibility test of the actual satellite and all five scientific instruments. NPP contains a suite of five sensors that will make measurements to continue producing key data products about Earth including, for example, measurements of cloud, vegetation, and ice cover, ocean color, and sea and land surface temperatures.