{"id":31824,"date":"2017-11-19T12:40:40","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T07:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=31824"},"modified":"2017-11-19T12:41:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T07:41:49","slug":"nasa-launches-next-generation-weather-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=31824","title":{"rendered":"NASA launches next-generation weather satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LOS ANGELES Nov 19 (TNS):<\/strong> NASA has launched a next-generation satellite into space designed to monitor weather around the world and help improve forecasts.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite, called the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1), is a joint venture between the US space agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which provides weather reports and forecasts.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite was launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket as scheduled at 1:47 am (0947 GMT) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.<\/p>\n<p>It will orbit the Earth 14 times each day from one pole to the other at 512 miles (824 kilometres) above the planet, &#8220;providing scientists full global coverage twice a day,&#8221; NASA said.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite &#8220;is the first in NOAA\u2019s series of four, next-generation operational environmental satellites representing major advancements in observations used for severe weather prediction and environmental monitoring,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>JPSS-1 &#8220;carries a suite of advanced instruments designed to take global measurements of atmospheric, land and sea conditions, from sea surface temperatures, volcanic ash, hurricane intensity and many more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Four smaller satellites called CubeSats, part of NASA\u2019s educational nano-satellite program, are to be released on the same mission.<\/p>\n<p>The CubeSats belong to four US universities and will be set in orbit after the weather satellite has been deployed, NASA said.<\/p>\n<p>Two previous launch attempts had been cancelled, once due to high winds and another due to technical problems.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES Nov 19 (TNS): NASA has launched a next-generation satellite into space designed to monitor weather around the world and help improve forecasts. The satellite, called the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1), is a joint venture between the US space agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which provides weather reports and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[768],"class_list":["post-31824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31826,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31824\/revisions\/31826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}