First JPSS antenna installed as NOAA continues to highlight consequences of budget shortfall

The Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) program, which will deliver the next-generation of polar-orbiting satellites, reached a key milestone with the installation of the first antenna that will receive data from the spacecraft. A team from Raytheon Company recently installed the antenna receptor at McMurdo Station, Antarctica.

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