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Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite
The Objectives
of the polar-orbiting system program are to continue procurement of
the spacecraft , instruments, launch services, and ground equipment
necessary to maintain an uninterrupted operational polar-orbiting
satellite system.
The NOAA Polar Program Manager is Mike Mignogno. He can be reached
at (301 )817-4413 and by fax at (301)817-4403. Mike manages and
plans for all space and ground data system services required to ensure
continued
availability of global environmental data from current and future
polar spacecraft.
In FY 1995, a Tri-agency (NOAA, DOD, and NASA) Integrated Program
Office (IPO) began the system, which will succeed the current NOAA
polar-orbiting environmental satellite system and the Defense Meteorological
Satellite Program (DMSP) of the Department of Defense. This activity
is managed by the tri-agency Integrated Program Office (IPO)
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