Options to ensure the climate record from the NPOESS and GOES-R spacecraft : a workshop report / Panel on Options to Ensure the Climate Record from the NPOESS and GOES-R Spacecraft, Space Studies Board, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies.

In 2000, the nation's next-generation National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program anticipated purchasing six satellites for $6.5 billion, with a first launch in 2008. By November 2005, however, it became apparent that NPOESS would overrun its cost estimat...

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Corporate Authors:	National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Options to Ensure the Climate Record from the NPOESS and GOES-R Spacecraft., National Research Council (U.S.). Space Studies Board.
Format:	Electronic
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2008.
Subjects:	GOES (Meteorological satellite) National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System. Geostationary satellites. Meteorological satellites. meteorological satellites. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Aeronautics & Astronautics.
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