VIIRS: Next Generation Environmental Monitoring From Space

Onboard the NPP Satellite, VIIRS provides superior imagery and data for next generation civil and military weather, climate and disaster monitoring. Watch the Video

Space Is Our Compelling Horizon, 2013

Why Space matters to a whole new generation of scientists, dreamers, inventors and explorers who will face new hurdles and solve long-standing mysteries. Watch the Video

VIIRS Launch

The Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) provides advanced imaging and radiometric capabilities aboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) spacecraft and future next-generation weather satellites. Watch the Video

VIIRS: Follow the Photons

An animated video demonstrating the path light travels through an exploded view of the Visible/Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) sensor. The VIIRS sensor payload is scheduled to launch on board the NPP remote sensing weather satellite October 28, 2011. Raytheon also built and manages the Common Ground System (CGS) which processes and disseminates the data from the NPP satellite and payloads. Watch the Video