Summary

Description	Tiffany Nail: You're about to get an inside look at the NOAA-N mission and find out what exciting things this mission will do for us. Our guests today include some of the major players responsible for the NOAA-N mission. First NASA POES Project Manager, Karen Halterman tells us how the critical POES program and this mission affects our daily lives. Karen Halterman: NOAA-N is a single satellite, but it's part of a constellation of satellites that are in the polar-orbiting system, and NOAA uses two of these satellites as their main operational satellites, and data from two of these satellites cover the entire globe of the whole earth at least four times a day. And that's enough data to be used in the environmental models that predict the weather. It's smaller than a school bus, but it's larger than a SUV. At launch, it weighs a little over 2000 pounds. Our satellites last for many years and we have several of them up there at any time. So that even if one of them fails before we launch
Date	2005-05-20
Source	images.nasa.gov

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