A view of the Pacific coast at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. At the West Coast launch site, the Joint Polar Satellite System-1, or JPSS-1, spacecraft is being prepared for liftoff atop a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket. Built by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. of Boulder, Colorado, JPSS is the first in a series four next-generation environmental satellites in a collaborative program between the NOAA and NASA. Liftoff is scheduled to take place from Vandenberg's Space Launch Complex 2.
Photographer NASA USAF
Date October 24, 2017