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Suomi NPP
The
Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership
or
Suomi NPP
, previously known as the
National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project
(
NPP
) and
NPP-Bridge
, is a
weather satellite
operated by the
United States
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
. Originally intended as a pathfinder for the
NPOESS
programme, which was to have replaced NOAA's
Polar Operational Environmental Satellites
and the
US Air Force
's
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
, Suomi was launched in 2011 after the cancellation of NPOESS to serve as a gapfiller between the POES satellites and the
Joint Polar Satellite System
which will replace them. Its instruments provide climate measurements that continue prior observations by
NASA
's
Earth Observing System
.
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