Spacecraft Overview
Carrying the same main instruments, the JPSS-1 spacecraft will be very similar to NASA's NPP spacecraft, the precursor to JPSS. Ball Aerospace is designing and building the spacecraft bus, under contract to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center on behalf of NOAA, and is responsible for integrating the instruments and for performing satellite-level testing and launch support. The JPSS-2 spacecraft will be selected based on a full and open competition in the future.
JPSS-1 and Suomi NPP are both members of the Ball Configurable Platform (BCP) family of spacecraft designed for cost-effective, remote sensing applications. Its proven design accommodates a wide range of payloads. The BCP 2000 was designed to accommodate a wide variety of Earth-observing payloads that require precision pointing control, flexible high-data throughput and downlinks, and controlled re-entry.
NPP Press Conference-Oct 12
