NOAA 19

Launch data: Designation  33591 / 09005A Launch date  06 Feb 2009 - 10:22 UT Launch site  Va, SLC-2W Launch vehicle  Delta-7320-10C Mission  Government: Meteorologyr LEO Earth orbit on Feb 06.90: Perigee / Apogee  847 x 866 km Eccentricity  1.59E-03 Inclination  98.73 deg Period  102.06 min

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Mission details:

• Meteorological satellite, launched for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and manufactured by Lockheed Martin using their Advanced TIROS-N platform. Body of the satellite has a diameter of 1.88 metres and length of 4.2 metres, with a single array of solar cells with a length of 3.2 metres.
• It was renamed NOAA 19 once it reached its 846 x 865 km orbit. NOAA 19 is the last in a long series of civil POES (Polar Orbiting Environmental System) satellites launched since Tiros 1 in 1960. The satellites were all built by RCA/East Windsor and its corporate successors (now Lockheed Martin). The original NASA Tiros satellites (1 to 9) were followed by the TOS (Tiros Operational Satellites) Tiros 10 and ESSA 1-9, owned by the Weather Bureau (later ESSA, later NOAA), and then by the ITOS (Improved TOS), ITOS 1 and NOAA 1 to 5. A new design flew as Tiros N in 1978, with its siblings NOAA 6, B, 7 and 12; finally the Advanced Tiros N flew as NOAA 8-11 and 13-19. The DMSP Defense Meteorological Satellite Program satellites have a similar design; three remain to be launched.
• Polar-orbiting satellite; lonGalaxy-range weather forecasting; atmospheric and weather monitoring instruments; data stored on-board and transmitted over Fairbanks, AK and Wallops Island, VA.