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The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) was to be the United States' next-generation satellite system that would monitor the Earth's weather, atmosphere, oceans, land, and near-space environment. NPOESS satellites were to host proven technologies and operational versions of sensors that are currently under operational-prototyping by NASA. The estimated launch date for the first NPOESS satellite, "C1" or "Charlie 1" was around 2013. Issues with sensor developments were the primary cited reason for delays and cost-overruns.
NPOESS was to be operated by the NOAA / NESDIS / NPOESS Program Executive Office Flight Operations at the NOAA Satellite Operations Facility (NSOF) in Suitland, MD. Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems (NGAS) was the primary system integrator for the NPOESS project. Raytheon, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. and Boeing were developing the sensors.
NPOESS was to be a replacement for both the United States Department of Defense's DMSP and the NOAA Polar Operational Environmental Satellites (POES) series. The NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) was planned as a pathfinder mission for NPOESS. The project had to go through three Nunn-McCurdy reviews, Congressional hearings that are automatically triggered when a program goes over budget by more than 25%. It was launched five years behind schedule, on October 28, 2011.
Date- 21st Apr 11 Source- http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010700/a010742/ 'The NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) represents a critical first step in building the next-generation weather satellite system. Goddard Space Flight Center is leading NASA's effort to launch a satellite that will carry the first of the new sensors developed for this next-generation system, previously called the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) and now the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS).'
The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) is a satellite system used to monitor global environmental conditions, collect and disseminate data related to: weather, atmosphere, oceans, land and near-space environment. (more)
Date: Thursday, June 7, 2007 - 1:00 p.m. Location: 2318 Rayburn House Office Building Subcommittee on Energy and Environment Hearing: The Status Report on the NPOESS Weather Satellite Program Witnesses: Dr. John Marburger III, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Mr. David Powner, Director of Information Technology Management Issues at the Government Accountability Office (GAO) Brigadier General Susan Mashiko, United States Air Force (USAF), Program Executive Officer for Environmental Monitoring 110th Congress
Joint Hearing - Investigations and Oversight, Energy and Environment Subcommittees - Polar Weather Satellite Program Date: Friday, September 23, 2011 - 10:00am Location: 2318 Rayburn House Office Building From NPOESS to JPSS: An Update on the Nation’s Restructured Polar Weather Satellite Program Hearing Charter I&O; Subcommittee Chairman Paul Broun (R-GA) E&E; Subcommittee Chairman Andy Harris (R-MD) The Honorable Kathryn Sullivan Ph.D., Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Environmental Observation and Prediction and Deputy Administrator, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Mr. Christopher Scolese Associate Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Mr. David A. Powner Director, Information Technology Management Issues, Government Accountability Office
The NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) represents a critical first step in building the next-generation weather satellite system. Goddard Space Flight Center is leading NASA's effort to launch a satellite that will carry the first of the new sensors developed for this next-generation system, previously called the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) and now the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS). This animation is an artist's rendition of the NPP polar-orbiting satellite looking at a hurricane. credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?10742
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 - 2:00 p.m. Location: 2318 Rayburn House Office Building Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight Hearing: Continuing Independent Assessment of the National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Witnesses: Mr. David Powner, Director, Information Technology Management Issues, Government Accountability Office (GAO) Mr. A. Thomas Young, Chair of the NPOESS Independent Review Team (IRT) Ms. Mary Glackin, Deputy Administrator, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 111th Congress
Date: Thursday, June 19, 2008 - 10:00 a.m. Location: 2318 Rayburn House Office Building Subcommittee on Energy and Environment Hearing: An Insecure Forecast for Continuity of Climate and Weather Data: The NPOESS Weather Satellite Program Witnesses: Mr. David Powner, Director of Information Technology Management Issues in the Government Accountability Office Vice Admiral Conrad Lautenbacher, Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 110th Congress
An animator's conception shows the NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite orbiting the earth and interpreting weather data through it's myriad sensors. The Satellite is part of a bridge mission between the Earth Observing System and the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System or NPOESS.
The NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) represents a critical first step in building the next-generation weather satellite system. Goddard Space Flight Center is leading NASA's effort to launch a satellite that will carry the first of the new sensors developed for this next-generation system, previously called the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) and now the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS).
(Legacy)
Like damn I don't really like to argue, think it's pointless, but you like to start too,
like I heard this, she said that, & my new friends told me they must be facts,
here we go with this stuff again, you just met these girls, & you trustin them?
she put it on me, screamin so loud, that I'm left with no choice but to tune her out,
(you stupid motherf***er) I love you too, you workin out girl? I love them shoes!
Yell all you want, if that's what you do, plus I love when your mad, I think its so cute,
I shut her up by the compliments, that's really the only way I can top the fits,
so every time she start yellin In here, I close my eyes, & put my hands on my ear like...
(Chorus)
Na na na, say what? Na na na I cant hear you! Na na na what's that? I cant hear you!
I swear it's like you talkin to a wall, cause I ain't listen to you at all,
but you keep tryna talk talk talk, but wah wah wah,
but talk all the shit you want cause I'll be zonin you out.
(Hook)
Same ol brand new station, I aint listnin, I be zonin you out, you talking like it's the end of the world, but you aint got shit to say, zonin, out my ear x3, I be zonin you out
(Ben J)
Damn get out my ear though, got these old folks lookin at us like weirdo's,
can we jus sit & talk about it? Instead of you tryna tell ya paps about It,
you don't needa go that far,
it's just me & you, your daddy too old what that nigga gon do?
Oops my bad, you know I aint mean It, what I'm tryna say is we needa quit beefin,
she smiled at me and said "Your right, but who was that girl you was with last night?" She started going off like burnt lights,
at this rate we never gon work right,
that's when I planned somethin different,
the only way to deal with her is to not listen,
so I put my hands on my ear till she stopped trippin like..
(Chorus)
Na na na, say what? Na na na I cant hear you! Na na na what's that? I cant hear you!
I swear it's like you talkin to a wall, cause I ain't listen to you at all,
but you keep tryna talk talk talk, but wah wah wah,
but talk all the shit you want cause I'm zonin you out.
(Hook)
Same ol brand new station, I aint listnin, I be zonin you out, you talking like it's the end ff the world, but you aint got shit to say, I'm zonin, out my ear x3, I be zonin you out
(Legacy)
Seem like all you want is for me to hear ya voice,
even if all the things you say is true,
there's still no point, for you to be trippin like you are, it ain't that bad,
I even left my ex girl for you, & she ain't that bad,
here we go again, here we go again same damn arguin,
I don't know the chick I don't know the chick , will you please get off my ear,
think about all the times that you find out a lie just to bring you down,
your way to loud, if you gon try & shout, then ill be zonin you out like..
(Chorus)
Na na na, say what? Na na na I cant hear you! Na na na what's that? I cant hear you!
I swear it's like you talkin to a wall, cause I ain't listen to you at all,
but you keep tryna talk talk talk, but wah wah wah,
but talk all the shit you want cause I'm zonin you out.
(Hook)