Engineering:Defense Weather Satellite System
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The Defense Weather Satellite System (DWSS)[1] was a United States Department of Defense weather satellite system to have been built by Northrop Grumman Corporation[2] projected for launch in 2018.[3] In January 2012, the US Air Force cancelled the program.[4] It was replaced with the Weather System Follow-on Microwave (WSF-M).[5]
DWSS was a follow-on for the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) mission. The DWSS, together with the still continuing Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) project, was to replace the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) project which itself was cancelled in January 2010.[6]
References
- ↑ "Defense Weather Systems Directorate Defense Weather Systems Directorate: DWSS Factsheet". http://www.losangeles.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=4644.
- ↑ "Northrop Grumman DWSS Home Page". http://www.as.northropgrumman.com/products/dwss/index.html.
- ↑ "Northrop Grumman Receives Authorization from U.S. Air Force to Begin Work on Defense Weather Satellite System". http://www.defense-aerospace.com/cgi-bin/client/modele.pl?shop=dae&modele=release&prod=125787&cat=3.
- ↑ "Proposed next-generation weather satellites get the ax". Spaceflight Now. January 24, 2012. http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1201/24dwss/.
- ↑ "2015 Air Force RDT&E Budget Item Justification". https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/budget/fy2015/usaf-peds/0604422f_4_pb_2015.pdf.
- ↑ Reuters: Northrop in $427 million U.S. Air Force satellite deal
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