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Key Sensor Delivered To NPOESS Program

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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

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The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) team led by Northrop Grumman [NOC] has delivered a critical sensor, the Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), the company said. NPOESS is the nation's next-generation, low-Earth orbiting operational weather and climate monitoring system that is designed to provide operational and long-term weather and climate data to military and civilian users around the clock for the next two decades. As part of the NPOESS system, VIIRS will provide highly detailed color imagery…

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