Joint Polar Satellite System Common Ground System

The JPSS Common Ground System

JPSS CGS is a flexible, cost-effective global system designed to support current and future weather and environmental sensing satellite missions.
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Developed and deployed by Raytheon under contract to NASA’s JPSS Program Office, the JPSS Common Ground System provides the full JPSS common ground capability, from design and development through operations and sustainment.

This mature, tested solution will converge the NOAA-NASA civil polar-orbiting environmental satellite program (JPSS), the NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP), and the Air Force's Defense Weather Satellite System (DWSS) into a single, common system satisfying both U.S. and partner international polar-orbiting environmental monitoring satellite needs.
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The JPSS Program

Developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the JPSS program will integrate future civilian and military polar-orbiting environmental satellite space and ground segments with a single ground system. This new system represents a major upgrade to the existing Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites (POES), which have successfully served the operational weather forecasting community for nearly 50 years. Read more >>

The JPSS Concept of Operations
 

Operated by NOAA, the new JPSS is an “end-to-end” system that includes sensors; spacecraft; command, control and communications; data routing; and ground based processing.

JPSS polar orbiters will carry a complement of advanced imaging and sounding sensors, which will increase NOAA and DoD capabilities to monitor the entire planet and to produce weather and climate predictions at a much higher fidelity and frequency than current satellite systems. These advanced capabilities will aid in fulfilling NOAA's mission to protect lives and property by increasing the timeliness and accuracy of public warnings and forecasts of weather and climate events.
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JPSS CGS Delivers Crucial Data for National Weather Forecasts

Raytheon brings more than four decades of high-availability, reliable, precision-based, command-and-control systems experience to JPSS. While JPSS will not prevent severe weather events such as hurricanes, tornadoes or blizzards from occurring, Raytheon’s advanced technologies enable meteorologists and forecasters to make timely, accurate weather predictions that help save lives, protect property and decrease the devastating economic impacts caused by severe weather. 

Additional Assessments and Recommendations

• Next Generation Weather Forecasting - Reducing the Uncertainty of Hurricane Impact
• The Consequences of an Observational Data Gap
• A World Without Weather: The Economic and Citizen Impact
• Joint Polar Satellite System Budget Recommendations