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Polar Operational Environmental Satellite Delivered

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Monday, November 10th, 2008

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The NOAA-N Prime spacecraft, a Polar Operational Environmental Satellite (POES), was delivered to Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., for a Feb. 4 launch, Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced. Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. built the bird. NOAA-N Prime is the latest in the Advanced TIROS-N (ATN) satellite series. All have been designed and built for NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) by Lockheed since the first Television and Infrared Observational Satellite (TIROS) weather satellite launch in April…

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