JPSS System Architecture S-NPP to the Future

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is acquiring the next-generation weather and environmental satellite system, named the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS). The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) serves as the acquisition and development agent.

The Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) satellite is a pathfinder for and provides continuity for the NASA Earth Observation System and the POES with its launch on 28 October 2011. NPP and the follow-on JPSS satellites will operate in the 1330 LTAN orbit and are being developed by NASA. JPSS-1 is scheduled to launch in by early 2017. NASA is developing the Common Ground System which will process JPSS data and has the flexibility to process data from other satellites.

This poster will provide a top level status update of the program, as well as an overview of the JPSS system architecture. The space segment carries a suite of sensors that collect meteorological, oceanographic, and climatological observations of the earth and atmosphere. The system design allows centralized mission management and delivers high quality environmental products to military, civil and scientific users through a Command, Control, and Communication Segment (C3S). The data processing for S-NPP/JPSS is accomplished through an Interface Data Processing Segment (IDPS)/Field Terminal Segment (FTS) that processes S-NPP/JPSS satellite data to provide environmental data products to NOAA and DoD processing centers as well as remote terminal users.