<b>Readied for Flight</b> - The NOAA-N Prime satellite stands in the payload processing facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. NOAA-N Prime is the latest polar-orbiting operational environmental weather satellite developed by NASA for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
NASA/Vandenberg AFB
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