JPSS:

Is a national priority – essential for meeting both civil and military weather-forecasting, storm tracking, and climate-monitoring requirements

Will provide next generation polar-orbiting operational environmental satellite capability

Will be procured by NOAA, through NASA, as it does with its GOES-R program

Will be used by the National Weather Service in models for long-term weather forecasting

Will allow scientists and forecasters to monitor and predict weather patterns with greater speed and accuracy

Is key for continuity of long-standing climate measurements, allowing study of long-term climate trends

Will improve and extend climate measurements for 30 different Environmental Data Records of the atmosphere, land, ocean, climate, and space environment