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good afternoon and welcome to nasa

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headquarters i'm steve cole from the

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office of communications

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a new type of earth science satellite is

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in california right now getting ready to

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launch into space in two weeks npp

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the npo's preparatory project

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it will be nasa's earth's first earth

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observing satellite to measure both

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climate changes and key aspects of

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day-to-day weather

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today we have four speakers here to tell

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you more about npp and its mission

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our speakers are first

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andrew carson npp program executive at

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nasa headquarters

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ken schwer npp project manager at

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goddard space flight center

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dr jim gleason npp project scientist at

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nasa goddard

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and dr louis uchillini director of the

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prediction representing the national

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the presentations will last about 15

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minutes after which we'll open up the

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floor to journalists here in the

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audience as well as online

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so our first speaker

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let me hand it over to andy andy

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thank you steve we're very excited about

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the upcoming launch of mpp in just a few

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short weeks

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mpp is a bridge to the next generation

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of earth observing satellites that will

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provide climate data that'll help

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that are critical to nasa's earth

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mpp will help us understand what

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tomorrow will bring whether by tomorrow

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we mean tomorrow's forecast or whether

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we mean years or decades from now

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nasa is currently operating 14 earth

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science missions

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in including a series of satellites

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known as the earth observing system or

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these satellites terra aqua and aura

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provide measurements about land oceans

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and atmosphere

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mpp will continue these key measurements

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which are critical to understanding the

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health of our planet now as well as how

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things might change in the future

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nasa is taking what we learned from the

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eos system and helping noaa create the

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next generation of satellites to extend

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these measurements into the future

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through the joint polar satellite system

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or jpss

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proving out the technologies and

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capabilities of that system

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both in the instruments and the ground

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mpp data will also be incorporated into

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providing higher resolution data and

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capabilities so mpp is a critical first

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step in building a climate capable

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operational system

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this mission was developed in

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collaboration with our partners at noaa

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and the department of defense

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as well as our industry partners at ball

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preparations for mpp and are looking

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forward to launch on october 27th

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we expect it will become a significant

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part of our nation's climate and weather

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now i'll turn it over to ken schwier the

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mpp project manager

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thank you andy

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tomorrow is a monumental milestone for

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npp the npp satellite will be mated on

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top of the delta ii launch vehicle out

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of vanderberg air force base california

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as we prepare for october 27th launch

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the npp team has successfully maintained

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schedule the past two years while

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completing a comprehensive satellite

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environmental test program and ensuring

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the readiness of the ground system and

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the mpp spacecraft is built by ball

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aerospace in boulder colorado where all

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five instruments were delivered and

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integrated onto the spacecraft after

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integration the mpp satellite is

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actually about the size of an suv

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the npp team successfully completed a

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satellite pre-ship review and the

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mission operational readiness review

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environmentally controlled spacecraft

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since then the npp spacecraft and

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instruments has successfully completed

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all checkouts and preparations for

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over the next two weeks the npp and

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will conduct a mission dress rehearsal

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the mission dress rehearsal actually

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vehicle teams with simulated anomalies

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while actually running the countdown

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this ensures the launch readiness of the

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role for npp is to manage the entire

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spacecraft two of the five instruments

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for the delta ii launch vehicle and

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in fact over the past 50 years the nasa

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goddard space flight center has managed

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and launched over 260 successful

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after launch the npp satellite will

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orbit 512 miles above our homes it will

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as you can see i am very excited and

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proud about my npp team's

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accomplishments and we look forward to a

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thank you this time i'd like to turn

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overview thanks ken we are really

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excited to be here to be talking to you

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about the upcoming npp launch which is

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really the first mission

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that's designed to provide observations

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for both weather forecasters and climate

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understand what the future environment

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scientists to better predict the future

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earth earth system for example npp will

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so why is npp important to nasa

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help scientists make better models which

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then lead to better predictions which

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decisions and these decisions can be as

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hopefully better decisions and now i'd

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we've already heard about the potential

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of the mpp for improving weather

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data that both nasa and noaa have worked

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2011 has been uh termed the year of the

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states

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beyond the weather forecasting noaa will

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use npp data to track ash plumes from

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volcanic eruptions to enhance aviation

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safety

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monitor crops vegetation potential for

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drought and fires

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measure variation in the arctic sea ice

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and detect harmful algae blooms and

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other hazards that might endanger

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fisheries and fragile ocean ecosystems

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noaa's looking uh really looking forward

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to a successful launch i am excited

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about the potential for npp and its use

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in the operational numerical weather

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prediction models

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back to you steve

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okay thank you thank you to all our

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speakers uh we'll take questions from

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the media in just a minute

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both in the audience if you have a

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question

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please raise your hand a microphone will

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come to you or if you're on the phone

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lines you dial star one but first i

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wanted to remind everybody watching and

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listening

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that there's a lot more information

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about npp online on the nasa website

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npp you can keep up with the launch

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milestones all the way up through

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watching launch on that website

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okay so we'll see if we have any

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questions here any questions in the

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okay first

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hi um this question is addressed to uh

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louie

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what advances in the new system with

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respect to the

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sounders

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are in place in npp

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that differ and increase the

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capabilities in the current satellite

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system

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well the en the npp has an advanced

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microwave

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sounder in the

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infrared which is a chris

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which is uh

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basically equivalent

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a slight improvement over what we're

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using from the med-op the european

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satellites so um

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we have experience with these sounders

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and and what this will allow us to do is

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because this will be at a different

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orbit than than what we have for met up

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we'll be able to have that type of

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advanced observations that will help us

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fill in data gaps in a temporal sense

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jazz i believe i forget who the authors

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are

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who argue that the resolution at least

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of the current

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founders and i'm not quite sure if this

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is true for the

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npp and advanced jpss

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equipment uh is

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is insufficient for input and value into

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high-resolution forecast models

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you have any comment on that

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i think that the we've already shown

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with the use of the current advanced

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systems that the resolution

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of those

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instruments are

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not only sufficient they are

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they

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meet all our requirements with respect

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to the global models

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and as you get down to the meso scale

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we can use those global models to help

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force the mesoscale

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initial conditions so

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well we're also we're also assimilating

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the satellite data into those higher

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resolution models as well as you know we

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don't have any data sets that match the

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resolution of those high resolution

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models

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the real trick of data assimilation is

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to take the strengths of observing

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systems and make them applicable to any

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resolution in those models and we've

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been successful in doing that so i i

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really don't see that as as an issue

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okay we have another question here

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please identify yourself hi i'm mary

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orndorff with the birmingham news i

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guess this question is for noah how long

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will the npp last

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and what is the latest on what it will

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be replaced with and whether or not

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there'll be a gap in that weather

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coverage

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well actually in terms of expected

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lifetime it has to go over to the

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project but we're we're hopeful that

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it'll be five years and beyond but let's

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get the

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yes it's uh it's always hard to predict

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how long you know satellite is going to

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live

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um i can tell you that the instruments

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were designed under the impose

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regime for seven year lifetime

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however during manufacturing testing and

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calibration of these instruments

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significant anomalies arose that give us

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concern that there's residual risk with

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these instruments that could actually

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affect the arnold lifetime the

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instruments are performing well but we

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are concerned about the on orbit

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lifetime on some of these instruments

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keep in mind npp was always a pathfinder

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mission

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in the lessons learned from npp we're

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going to go back into the design and

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manufacturing of these instruments for

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the follow-on operational program

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it was always envisioned that would take

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approximately like 18 months to go

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through the calibration validation of

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these instruments and that would give

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noaa time to update the data product

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algorithms

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for use on the ground so we can improve

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the data products before the operational

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system would be launched

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okay we have a question on on the phone

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lines uh alan boyle from msnbc go ahead

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hi uh this mission comes after a years

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long

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face over

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uh

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ohss and

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i wondered if you could reflect on

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how that whole debate turned out so

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whether there were lessons learned from

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that process and what you'd be missing

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because of the way that the mission has

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alan we lost a little bit of the last

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half of your question

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yeah um but let go ahead andy okay i

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think i can address part of part of his

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question

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um as you know back in in february of

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2010 the administration decided to

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restructure the unposed program

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and break the program up into two one

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with the air force handling the the

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early morning orbit and noaa handling

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the afternoon orbit

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uh nasa is the acquisition agent for the

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afternoon orbit for noaa for the jpss

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program

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and and noaa nasa have uh 40 plus years

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of working together in building weather

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satellites and through the pose and goes

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programs so relying on that 40 plus

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years of of cooperation and

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collaboration is what we're gonna fall

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back on in in in this new regime for the

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jpss system

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um i would like to give you kind of a

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a real life aspect of

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how this has improved the situation

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greatly for npp

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um under the old npos program when we

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were doing

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specific like testing for the mpp

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satellite where you brought in all the

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segments and all the parties flight

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hardware ground hardware and we would

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have an issue during this test

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i as the mpp project manager would have

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to work with the npos program which was

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a try agency group

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that noaa had functional responsibility

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to

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but the contracts were air force

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contracts out of smc

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space missile command in california

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and the prime contract was with northrop

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grumman in la

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and then each of the instrument

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contractors and the ground contractors

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then had contracts with northrop grumman

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so you can see if i needed something

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work i had a pretty big loop in order to

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go around to make that happen

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after the reorganization now i can tell

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you that

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all of those groups the ground the

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flight

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live in the same building

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and the project managers of those

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organizations used to be my deputies

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so if i have a problem

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uh not only is it easy it's usually

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being worked before you ever even ask

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them so it's really what's enhanced npp

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to stay on schedule for this time and

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produce a quality product to be launched

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on october 27th

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okay uh we have one other question on

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the phone lines mark caro from aviation

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thank you um

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could you tell us the cost of this

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mission and uh what's the current

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projected

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launch date for the jpss operational

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okay well i'll address the the cost

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question um

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the the mpp mission is um the the costly

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mpp mission is just over 1.5 billion

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dollars and that includes both the the

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the nasa cost uh for for mission

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management for project management for

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for the spacecraft and launch vehicle

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and the two instruments that nasa

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provided and it also includes the costs

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okay we have a question here in the

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audience please identify yourself

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titus ledbetter from the publication

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inside the air force um can you describe

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the air the nature of the air force's

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well the air force was part of the

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impose program

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which was responsible for

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half the funding for the three of the

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instruments that we were talking about

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chris omps and viirs and also the ground

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system the data products and algorithms

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and all of that uh and in the you know

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the beginning of 2010 when it split

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apart

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air force went on their morning orbit

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and noah nasa went in the afternoon

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orbit

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we're still working very close with them

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all the data that is produced by npp

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goes through this what we call a common

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ground system and air force has access

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to all that information the same way

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when they eventually get around to their

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morning orbit

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we will have access to that information

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so all the agreements that were in place

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for these agencies to share this data

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across these orbits is still in place

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and some lawmakers uh have called for

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the possible cancellation of the defense

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weather satellite system i was wondering

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your thoughts on how such a move might

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affect um

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the joint polar silent system and

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projects moving forward

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yeah i i guess for jpss questions maybe

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we could take those offline and get

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somebody who's who's better versed in

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the jpss program to answer those

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questions

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again those are different contacts we

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can get you there the panel is not on

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the jpss system so we can get you people

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to talk to after this if that's okay

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we have another question online uh doyle

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rice from usa today

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oh yes i think most of my question was

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already answered but i just wondered how

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i think all we heard was how soon could

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yeah how soon after it's launched will

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um yeah we have the it depends there's

575
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um over 30 data products from npp um

576
00:22:10,070 --> 00:22:08,080
we've been saying you know we expect to

577
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have um some

578
00:22:14,549 --> 00:22:12,640
operational data within 18 months my my

579
00:22:16,390 --> 00:22:14,559
guess is from looking at things that

580
00:22:18,230 --> 00:22:16,400
there'll be a spectrum and the most

581
00:22:19,830 --> 00:22:18,240
critical data sets will be done much

582
00:22:22,070 --> 00:22:19,840
sooner so we're looking at for the first

583
00:22:25,190 --> 00:22:22,080
data sets probably in the six month time

584
00:22:27,190 --> 00:22:25,200
frame for for microwave radiances and

585
00:22:28,789 --> 00:22:27,200
longer for the more complicated data

586
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products

587
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and if i could add and

588
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also

589
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with respect to the

590
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noaa nasa and dod

591
00:22:43,190 --> 00:22:41,520
partaking the joint center for satellite

592
00:22:46,310 --> 00:22:43,200
data assimilation

593
00:22:47,029 --> 00:22:46,320
and we've been working together uh

594
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to

595
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op and use those

596
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data sets and we are preparing for the

597
00:22:57,590 --> 00:22:55,760
npp

598
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so as soon as this data goes through

599
00:23:01,909 --> 00:22:59,760
engineering checkout and calibration

600
00:23:04,549 --> 00:23:01,919
validation activities

601
00:23:07,510 --> 00:23:04,559
uh we'll be uh relying on the ground

602
00:23:11,029 --> 00:23:07,520
system uh work that's already been done

603
00:23:12,630 --> 00:23:11,039
and the air force the navy us will all

604
00:23:14,470 --> 00:23:12,640
be working together for the data

605
00:23:16,630 --> 00:23:14,480
assimilation into the numerical models

606
00:23:18,149 --> 00:23:16,640
which we use for all our prediction

607
00:23:19,510 --> 00:23:18,159
activities so

608
00:23:21,510 --> 00:23:19,520
we're setting up for that and we're

609
00:23:22,789 --> 00:23:21,520
really looking forward to

610
00:23:25,110 --> 00:23:22,799
getting through the cal val the

611
00:23:27,830 --> 00:23:25,120
instrument uh cowbell process so we can

612
00:23:30,630 --> 00:23:27,840
start uh testing it within our models

613
00:23:32,950 --> 00:23:30,640
and and like was indicated here uh

614
00:23:35,270 --> 00:23:32,960
probably hopefully within the six month

615
00:23:40,470 --> 00:23:35,280
period we'll be testing those data sets

616
00:23:46,070 --> 00:23:42,950
okay um i guess we have another question

617
00:23:49,909 --> 00:23:48,390
uh just a follow-up on the budget

618
00:23:51,909 --> 00:23:49,919
question

619
00:23:54,230 --> 00:23:51,919
it may be obvious but i'm not aware of

620
00:23:56,549 --> 00:23:54,240
the actual answer is the budget for the

621
00:24:00,549 --> 00:23:56,559
mpp independent

622
00:24:01,909 --> 00:24:00,559
of the noaa budget for the jpss

623
00:24:04,149 --> 00:24:01,919
and its

624
00:24:08,549 --> 00:24:04,159
difficulties that it's had in the past

625
00:24:13,669 --> 00:24:10,630
um i'm not completely clear on the

626
00:24:15,350 --> 00:24:13,679
question but i i believe that the the

627
00:24:19,590 --> 00:24:15,360
cost of the mission that i provided

628
00:24:21,510 --> 00:24:19,600
earlier was both the the nasa costs and

629
00:24:23,269 --> 00:24:21,520
uh the noaa costs that were for the

630
00:24:25,830 --> 00:24:23,279
viirs chris and amps instruments that

631
00:24:27,350 --> 00:24:25,840
were uh delivered from the impose ipo

632
00:24:29,269 --> 00:24:27,360
and knowing that

633
00:24:31,350 --> 00:24:29,279
noaa shared the cost

634
00:24:36,070 --> 00:24:31,360
of those instruments with the dod during

635
00:24:41,830 --> 00:24:38,950
okay

636
00:24:45,590 --> 00:24:44,149
question online that i'll have to read

637
00:24:48,310 --> 00:24:45,600
as we're having some phone difficulties

638
00:24:50,149 --> 00:24:48,320
is from climate wire lauren morello

639
00:24:53,750 --> 00:24:50,159
will the design of the instruments the

640
00:24:58,830 --> 00:24:53,760
five instruments on npp be repeated for

641
00:25:03,269 --> 00:25:01,430
um that's that's a very good question a

642
00:25:05,669 --> 00:25:03,279
lot of work has been done in that area

643
00:25:07,430 --> 00:25:05,679
have you as i mentioned earlier

644
00:25:08,950 --> 00:25:07,440
there were significant anomalies during

645
00:25:11,190 --> 00:25:08,960
the manufacturing and testing and

646
00:25:13,750 --> 00:25:11,200
calibration of these instruments

647
00:25:15,830 --> 00:25:13,760
i know for a fact the jpss organization

648
00:25:17,909 --> 00:25:15,840
the instrument organization has spent

649
00:25:19,590 --> 00:25:17,919
the last year and a half going through

650
00:25:20,789 --> 00:25:19,600
all the requirements all the design

651
00:25:22,630 --> 00:25:20,799
requirements mission assurance

652
00:25:24,710 --> 00:25:22,640
requirements the way they want to test

653
00:25:27,190 --> 00:25:24,720
the way they want to calibrate lessons

654
00:25:28,950 --> 00:25:27,200
learned from npp and are systematically

655
00:25:31,590 --> 00:25:28,960
fixing the things that i had mentioned

656
00:25:33,590 --> 00:25:31,600
that could uh preclude on orbit lifetime

657
00:25:36,070 --> 00:25:33,600
of these instruments so how long will

658
00:25:37,750 --> 00:25:36,080
they last once again that's hard to tell

659
00:25:39,669 --> 00:25:37,760
but i can tell you a lot of improvements

660
00:25:41,750 --> 00:25:39,679
are being made on these instruments

661
00:25:45,510 --> 00:25:41,760
based on the lessons learned from npp

662
00:25:47,830 --> 00:25:45,520
and the jpss program is doing that

663
00:25:49,510 --> 00:25:47,840
okay we have one question we received

664
00:25:51,909 --> 00:25:49,520
today from one of our

665
00:25:54,789 --> 00:25:51,919
followers on twitter

666
00:25:56,470 --> 00:25:54,799
simple question nasa has launched

667
00:25:59,110 --> 00:25:56,480
three satellites this year from

668
00:26:01,590 --> 00:25:59,120
vandenberg air force base in california

669
00:26:03,350 --> 00:26:01,600
why does nasa launch satellites from

670
00:26:04,149 --> 00:26:03,360
vandenberg when you've got a perfectly

671
00:26:06,950 --> 00:26:04,159
good

672
00:26:09,430 --> 00:26:06,960
launch site on the east coast

673
00:26:11,669 --> 00:26:09,440
um the satellites that are launched from

674
00:26:13,909 --> 00:26:11,679
vandenberg go into a polar orbit

675
00:26:15,430 --> 00:26:13,919
so they're they're launched so they go

676
00:26:18,549 --> 00:26:15,440
over the poles

677
00:26:19,909 --> 00:26:18,559
and uh because the earth is spinning

678
00:26:22,390 --> 00:26:19,919
if you want to put things in a polar

679
00:26:25,510 --> 00:26:22,400
orbit you want to go as high latitude as

680
00:26:27,590 --> 00:26:25,520
you can so you can overcome the

681
00:26:30,470 --> 00:26:27,600
uh force of the earth earth spinning so

682
00:26:33,029 --> 00:26:30,480
you take some you can put um satellites

683
00:26:34,870 --> 00:26:33,039
in polar orbit from the east coast

684
00:26:36,950 --> 00:26:34,880
but it just takes a much larger more

685
00:26:39,029 --> 00:26:36,960
expensive rocket

686
00:26:41,430 --> 00:26:39,039
okay thank you i think that's all the

687
00:26:43,590 --> 00:26:41,440
questions we have on the phone line and

688
00:26:45,350 --> 00:26:43,600
hear from the press so let me remind

689
00:26:48,470 --> 00:26:45,360
everyone that uh we have a lot of

690
00:26:50,870 --> 00:26:48,480
information online uh continue following

691
00:26:55,110 --> 00:26:50,880
npp up through launch the website again