JPSS
Joint Polar Satellite System
Active Mission
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NOAA and NASA, GOES and JPSS collaborate to support annular eclipse viewing.
NOAA and NASA work together to watch over our Earth, providing data for weather forecasting with a fleet of polar and geostationary orbiting satellites. The agencies also are important partners for watching the Sun’s activity and monitoring space weather, which can have impacts on our power grids and communication infrastructure.
See MoreThe operational JPSS constellation currently consists of the NASA-NOAA Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership satellite, the technology pathfinder mission for JPSS launched in 2011, and NOAA-20, previously called JPSS-1 and launched in 2017. The third satellite in the series, NOAA-21 (formerly JPSS-2), launched November, 10, 2022. Once it reached its polar orbit JPSS-2 was renamed NOAA-21.
