Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Common Ground System (CGS)

A flexible, cost-effective global common ground system designed to support current and future weather and environmental sensing satellite missions.

Key Features and Benefits The JPSS Program Overview The JPSS program will also The polar orbiters which are able Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) integrate future civilian and to monitor the entire planet and g Operational -- supported is designed to monitor global military (Defense Weather Satellite provide data for long-range successful NPP launch environmental conditions in System – DWSS) polar-orbiting weather and climate forecasts, will g Flexible architecture designed addition to collecting and environmental satellite space and carry a complement of advanced to quickly adapt to evolving disseminating data related to the ground segments with a single imaging and sounding sensors mission needs weather, atmosphere, oceans, land ground system. that will acquire data at a much and near-space environment. The higher fidelity and frequency than g Unique integration of new and JPSS Top Level Architecture new system represents a major heritage systems available today. legacy technologies JPSS is an “end-to-end” system upgrade to the existing Polar- that includes sensors; spacecraft; The JPSS CGS Distributed g Available to support diverse orbiting Operational command, control and Receptor Network (DRN) civil, military and scientific Environmental Satellites (POES), communications; data routing; architecture will provide frequent environmental needs which have successfully served the and ground based processing. JPSS downlinks to maximize contact operational weather forecasting g Fully integrated global ground and DWSS spacecraft will carry duration at low cost. JPSS CGS community for nearly 50 years. To system providing very low- improved imaging and sounding will deliver 95 percent of all be operated by the National latency data delivery sensors, thereby increasing NOAA Environmental Data Records Oceanic and Atmospheric and Department of Defense (EDRs) in less than 30 minutes g Enterprise management Administration (NOAA), the new capabilities to monitor across the full operating ensures high system and data JPSS will support NOAA’s atmospheric, climatic, oceanic, environment. availability requirements by providing global cryospheric, and near-Earth space environmental data for NOAA’s g Extensive command & control weather phenomena and perform missions to monitor the earth, system operational heritage respective weather and manage resources, support the provides proven reliability oceanographic forecasting Nation’s economy, and protect missions. JPSS CGS employs an g Flexible data-delivery lives and property. innovative data collection and subscription tailored to the processing system to accomplish user the task. g Optimal human-machine mix delivers low operational costs Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Common Ground System (CGS)

The Raytheon Solution the Distributed Receptor Network temperatures, aerosols, space JPSS and Related Organizations The JPSS CGS is a mature, tested (DRN). The receptors, linked with environment and earth radiation NOAA, under the Department of solution for supporting operational high-bandwidth commercial fiber, budget information. This wealth of Commerce, is the prime customer weather and storm forecasting for can quickly transport the data to information enables numerous and funding agency for JPSS. As civil, military, and international four U.S. data processing centers. users to monitor and predict such, NOAA develops and approves partners as well as climate research. Most data will ultimately be changes in weather, climate, and the requirements for the JPSS It features a flexible design that completely processed and delivered ocean conditions. JPSS and DWSS program and requests JPSS funding handles order-of-magnitude to the Weather Centrals in less than products will also be available to from Congress. The National increases in data over legacy 30 minutes from the time of the scientific community to expand Aeronautics and Space satellite ground systems’ volumes collection. our knowledge of the environment. Administration (NASA), via its and meets demanding science JPSS Program Office at Goddard The Mission Management Center The Field Terminal Segment, accuracy requirements. Space Flight Center (GSFC), provides accurate, high- equipped with specially configured Greenbelt MD, is the developing Developed by Raytheon Intelligence performance tools that precisely IDPS software, will permit agency performing day-to-day and Information Systems under manage JPSS and DWSS missions. worldwide fixed and mobile field program management. NASA’s JPSS contract to the JPSS Program Office The C3S tools give crews keen terminals deployed aboard ships, at Program Office is the contracting (PO), the CGS provides the full insight, comprehensive operational military bases, in theaters of agency for the CGS as well as for JPSS common ground capability, oversight, detailed mission planning operation, and at educational and the spacecraft and instruments from design and development capability, full control of space and scientific institutions to receive and contracts and the integration of through operations and ground assets, continuous process the continuous broadcasts DWSS spacecraft, sensors and sustainment. monitoring and assessment of of JPSS and DWSS sensed data as algorithms into CGS. The NPOESS overall system performance. the satellites pass overhead. The JPSS CGS consists of three Preparatory Project (NPP), is an main components: The Interface Data Processing early flight and risk-reduction The Command, Control and Segment (IDPS) features high- opportunity for prime JPSS Communications Segment (C3S) speed, symmetric, multi-processing instruments and the CGS. manages the operational mission computers that will rapidly convert including mission planning, large streams of JPSS and DWSS resource scheduling, satellite sensor data that are 100 times the command & control, active volume of legacy data, providing reception and accounting of numerous Environmental Data mission data, global Records (EDR) at four weather communications networks, Centrals in the United States. These enterprise management, anomaly vital EDRs range from atmospheric resolution, system security, and to land and ocean surface products. reliable delivery of data to and from The EDRs detail cloud coverage, central users. A key feature of the temperature, humidity and ozone C3S is the 15 unmanned global distribution, as well as snow cover, ground stations that receive JPSS vegetation, sea surface and DWSS mission data, termed Distributed Receptor Network Sites

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