Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
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The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) monitors meteorological, oceanographic, and solar-terrestrial physics for the United States Department of Defense. The program is managed by the United States Space Force with on-orbit operations provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The mission of the satellites was revealed in March 1973. They provide cloud cover imagery from polar orbits that are Sun-synchronous at nominal altitude of 830 km (520 mi).
Artist rendition of a DMSP-5D2 satellite in orbit
DMSP images of Auroral bands circling north of Scandinavia in December 2010
Rendering of lights on Earth's surface created using DMSP observations between 1994 and 1995
DMSP and POES orbits shown in a GAO diagram.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is a scientific and regulatory agency within the Washington, D.C.–based United States Department of Commerce, headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Two NOAA WP-3D Orions hurricane hunter aircraft
NOAA campus in Silver Spring, Maryland
A NOAA engineer at work
Aerial photographer in the unpressurized cabin of a NOAA de Havilland Buffalo breathing with the assistance of an oxygen mask while operating a Wild Heerbrugg RC-8 camera