NASA launches the most modern weather satellite to date

After spending billions of dollars and many delays, NASA has restarted the extremely important weather satellite project Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1).

The JPSS-1 satellite system is said to be the most modern ever, necessary for improving weather forecasts, helping firefighters, discovering ships or sailors missing at sea. Along with that, many other applications will be deployed on this satellite system.

JPSS-1 is the first satellite of NOAA's four orbiting satellites.

As scheduled, JPSS-1 will be launched from Vandenberg air base in California (USA) at around 16:30 pm (Vietnam time).

JPSS-1 is the first of the four orbiting satellites of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to provide the majority of data for inclusion in predictive models. weather.

The satellite of JPSS-1 will pass through the equator about 14 times a day and cover the Earth twice a day. Satellite sensors will collect air, ocean, ground conditions as well as the location of heat and steam in the atmosphere.

The implementation of JPSS-1 is partly due to the US worry that old geostationary satellites may fall and weather forecasts are no longer accurate. However, geostationary satellites have their own tasks because JPSS-1 does not provide images shown in. Thus, the US will have 2 weather satellite systems operating in parallel.

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