NASA's National Polar-Orbiting

Credit: BALL AEROSPACE & TECHNOLOGIES CORP.
NASA's National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (Npoess) Preparatory Project (NPP) spacecraft has completed first-phase thermal vacuum and vibration testing with engineering models of payload instruments. Four flight-qualified payloads--a Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer...

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