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NOAA-N Prime
NOAA-N' is the last in the series of TIROS ATN.
The Delta II carrying NOAA-N Prime lifted off Feb. 6, 2009 at 2:22 a.m. Pacific time, 5:22 a.m. Eastern time from Space Launch Complex-2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
The countdown proceeded smoothly throughout the night and early morning. Neither the spacecraft nor the United Launch Alliance Delta II launch vehicle experienced any technical issues, and the weather conditions remained favorable.
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NOAA-N Computer Model Showing N-Prime in Orbit Shortly After Launch and Coming into View Over U.S.
02.06.09 - The video shows N-Prime in orbit shortly after launch on Feb. 6, 2009 and coming into view over the United States where a plane has crashed in the Rockie Mountains and a ship is in distress in Northern Canada. As the satellite passes over a Search and Rescue ground station called a Local User Terminal (LUT), it transmits any distress signals it has received over the last orbit and immediately transmits any signals it sees at the present time. You will notice that the plane crash is just out of view of the Nprime satellite for the first orbit over the US, but the ship in Canada is detected. On the next orbit, the plane crash is detected. This scenario only demonstrates the capability of Nprime, but, know that Nprime is going to be one of 6 Low Earth Orbiting Search and Rescue (LEOSAR) satellites, so very rarely will a distress signal (like the plane) be missed.
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NOAA-N Prime Satellite Arrives at Vandenberg for Launch
11.04.08 - The latest polar-orbiting operational environmental weather satellite developed by NASA for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, called NOAA-N Prime, arrived Tuesday by C-5A military cargo aircraft at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., in preparation for a February 4, 2009 launch.
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The History of Polar-orbiting
Weather Satellites
From the launch of TIROS 1 in April 1960 through the launch of NOAA-N.
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