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NOAA-N Satellite Completes Checkout

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Monday, March 23rd, 2009

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The NOAA-N Prime spacecraft completed its 45-day on-orbit verification, Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced. NOAA-N is the final Polar Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) that was launched Feb. 6. Lockheed built the bird at its Sunnyvale, Calif., facility. The new satellite, designated NOAA-19 when it reached orbit, is the final spacecraft in the TIROS series. All have been designed and built for NASA by Lockheed since the first Television and Infrared Observational Satellite (TIROS) weather satellite launch in April 1960. NASA…

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