Last Updated: 04/12/2013* Joint Polar Satellite System Supports
NOAA’s Weather-Ready Nation NOAA weather satellites are the
backbone of life-saving weather forecasts and advance hazardous
outlooks and its Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) represents
the next great leap in weather forecasting accuracy. Raytheon
provides the technology, from space to ground, to support NOAA's
important weather mission of creating a Weather-Ready Nation.
Without polar-orbiting satellites and the capability to process
and translate data records, online resources and local
forecasters would have little-to-no information to report for
forecasts beyond 48 hours. Where do weather forecasts come from?
While the public relies on weather forecasts to make personal
and business decisions daily, the average American does not know
how weather data is collected and transformed into an extended
forecast. Polar-orbiting satellites provide 93 percent of the
data used in the 2- to 10-day National Weather Service (NWS)
forecast models. Support