JPSS-2/LOFTID Rollback for Launch

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2) satellite with NASA’s Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) as a secondary payload, stand ready to lift off atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Nov. 10.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2) satellite with NASA’s Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) as a secondary payload, stand ready to lift off atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Nov. 10.

Photographer NASA/Liz Wilk
Album ULA_JPSS-2
Location SLC-3, VSFB
Joint Polar Satellite System-2NASALaunch Services ProgramNational Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationUnited Launch AllianceAtlas VBernard KutterJPSS-2LOFTIDLow-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable DeceleratorLSPNOAATech DemonstrationULAVandenberg Space Force BaseWeather SatelliteGoddard Space Flight CenterKennedy Space CenterLangley Research Center