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Ball Aerospace-built Suomi NPP celebrates 5 years on orbit

Submit on Friday, October 28th, 2016 22:57

The NOAA/NASA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite, built by Ball Aerospace, was launched five years ago on 28 October 2011. Since then, Suomi NPP has provided life-saving data to weather forecasters and has given scientists new tools to help monitor the health of our planet.

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