A United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket sends the JPSS-1 satellite into space from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (ULA Photo) The first in a series of four next-generation weather satellites ...

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has successfully completed the SpaceWire Inter-operability Test for the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1) satellite and has begun spacecraft bus integration.

An advanced new weather satellite will now launch into space no earlier than Thursday (Nov. 16) after unacceptably high winds prevented an early-morning liftoff from California today. The satellite, ...

HOUSTON—The U.S. Joint Polar Satellite System is poised to reach full strength for improved weather forecasting, environmental assessments and climate modeling on global scales with the scheduled Nov.

It took three attempts to launch the JPSS-1 weather satellite. High winds and boats within the launch safety range offshore prevented two earlier attempts. With the Mobile Service Tower rolled away, ...

After more than a year of preparations for liftoff, NASA will launch the first of four brand-new weather satellites next week after a four-day delay due to a battery glitch. The Joint Polar Satellite ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The nation’s next polar-orbiting environmental satellite is one step closer to launch. Boulder-based Ball Aerospace powered on the Joint Polar Satellite ...