NPOESS launch schedule threatened by demo satellite delay
The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program is seeking additional funding from its overseeing agencies to try to stay on schedule for a first launch in November 2009, following a series of delays with a prototype demonstration satellite that have exhausted...
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