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Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
09:47:36
Saturday November 18, 2017
Watch Replay
Official Livestream
NOAA-20, designated JPSS-1 prior to launch, is the first of the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's latest generation of U.S. polar-orbiting, non-geosynchronous, environmental satellites called the Joint Polar Satellite System.
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
1 Payload
2,540 kilograms
Agency
ULARocket
Height: 38.9m
Payload to Orbit
LEO: 4,844 kg
Liftoff Thrust
3,511 Kilonewtons
Fairing
Diameter: 3m
Height: 8.9m
Stages
2
Strap-ons
9
154th
Mission
1st
Mission of 2017
123rd
Mission
8th
Mission of 2017
77th
Orbital launch attempt