NPP Satellite Reaches Orbit
After a five-year wait, a United Launch Alliance Delta II successfully placed NPP, a weather and climate monitoring satellite built by Ball Aerospace, into orbit Friday from Vandenberg AFB, Calif. Formally known as the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory...
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