NOAA-19

 2009-005A

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NOAA N' will be launched by Delta 2 in 2009 Feb. On 2003 Sep 6 NOAA N' was dropped while being moved and was heavily damaged.

NOAA 19 will replace NOAA 18 in a 2pm orbit as the primary afternoon spacecraft.

The spacecraft was 4.2 m long 1.88m dia, with a 2.7 x 6.1m solar array. Mass was 1420 kg launch incl. 4 kg of prop.

NOAA N'
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2009 Feb 6	1022	Launch by Delta II 7320-10C	V SLC2W
		T+1:39 SRM jettison
		T+4:24 MECO
		T+4:32 Stage 1 sep
		T+4:38 SEIG-1
		T+4:56 Fairing sep
	1033	T+11:16 SECO-1	182 x 867 x 98.7
	1121	T+59:21 SEIG-2
	1121	T+59:34 SECO-2
	1127	T+1:05:40 NOAA-N sep	857 x 864 x 98.7
		Solar array boom deploy
		SRA deploy
		Sunshade deploy
		SEIG-3
		SECO-3
		Delta orbit	94.60 177 x 821 x 102.0

Payload:

• AVHRR/3 Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer 3

• HIRS/4 High Res. IR Radiation Sounder 4

• AMSU-A Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit A

• MHS Microwave Humidity Sounder

• SBUV-2 Solar Backscatter UV Radiometer 2

• SEM/2 Space Environment Monitor 2