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polar-orbiting weather satellite

Wednesday, February 17th, 2016

Ball Aerospace Completes Instrument Integration on Nation’s Next Polar-orbiting Weather Satellite

BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 17,  2016 — All five of the complex and critical instruments that will deliver data for NOAA’s next polar-orbiting weather satellite mission have been integrated by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. on the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1) satellite. The Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) was the final instrument to be integrated onto the