NOAA MEDIA BRIEFING ON UPCOMING JPSS-2 LAUNCH, Oct 4, 2022, virtual, 1:00 pm ET

NOAA will host a virtual media briefing on October 4, 2022 at 1:00 pm ET to preview the upcoming launch of the second Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) satellite, JPSS-2, which is scheduled for November 1.

More information and a weblink are in the NOAA press release.

Briefing participants from NOAA (which owns and operates civil weather satellites), NASA (which procures the satellites for NOAA), the United Launch Alliance (which will launch JPSS-2), and three companies that built the spacecraft and instruments are:

• Mitch Goldberg, Chief Scientist, NOAA Satellite and Information Service
• Tim Walsh, JPSS Program Director, NOAA
• Jordan Gerth, Meteorologist, NOAA National Weather Service
• Scott Capehart, JPSS Program Manager, Northrop Grumman
• Shaun Daly, JPSS-2 Mission Manager, NASA Launch Services Program
• André Dress, JPSS Flight Project Manager, NASA-Goddard
• Barb Egan, Civil/NASA Program Director, United Launch Alliance
• John Gagosian, Director, NASA Joint Agency Satellite Division
• Sarah Lipscy, Acting Director, Civil Space, New Business, Ball Aerospace
• Matt Magana, Vice President, Raytheon Intelligence and Space
• Andrew Stoller, Program Manager, Cross-track Infrared Sounder Spectral Solutions, L3Harris Technologies