NOAA, NASA Restore Climate Sensor to Next Generation Satellite
Environment News Service, April, 2007
WASHINGTON, DC (ENS) — --> NASA and NOAA today announced a plan to restore a key ozone layer climate sensor to the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System, NPOESS, program.
The Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite, OMPS, Limb will be returned to a satellite which is set to launch in 2009. NOAA and NASA have agreed to share equally the cost to restore the climate sensor, but the agencies have not released the cost figures.
A recent restructuring of the program had removed the sensor from the NPOESS Preparatory Project, NPP, mission.
"This sensor will allow us to move forward with the next generation of technology for weather and climate prediction," said NASA Administrator Michael Griffin.
The NPP mission collects...
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