ULA’s Atlas V Rocket Launched JPSS-2, LOFTID into Space Thursday Written 11 November 2022
A ULA Atlas V launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base, CA, November 10, 2022,. | Credit: NASASpaceflight, YouTube; framegrab
The AP reports that United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket launched the Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2) and NASA’s Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) into space Thursday. The rocket “lifted off at 1:49 a.m. from Vandenberg Space Force Base, northwest of Los Angeles.” JPSS-2, developed for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, “was placed into an orbit that circles the Earth from pole to pole, joining previously launched satellites in a system designed to improve weather forecasting and climate monitoring.”
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ULA Atlas V Launches JPSS-2 Mission, November 10, 2022
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