JPSS 2 (Joint Polar Satellite System spacecraft No. 2) & LOFTID

NOAA/NASA's JPSS-2 polar-orbiting weather satellite launched with the LOFTID inflatable heat-shield tech demo from Vandenberg on an Atlas V 401, the last Atlas V to fly from the West Coast; LOFTID later reentered and splashed down off Hawaii under parachute.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

SSO

Sun-synchronous orbit

Payload to orbit

4.2 T

Flight

41st

of 41 Atlas V 401 flights

Date and time

10 November 2022, 09:49 UTC

Rocket

Atlas V 401

Builder

ULA

Launch site

Space Launch Complex 3E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Payload

Earth Science

International designator

2022-150

Launches in 2022

155th of 186

See it in orbit

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