(missions by scheduled date of launch)

JPSS-1 (Joint Polar Satellite System-1)

• Scheduled Launch: November 2014, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., Complex 2 aboard a Delta II rocket. Launch is of the responsability of United Launch Services LLC of Englewood, Colo. as NASA's Launch Services Program at Kennedy Space Center is responsible for launch vehicle program management
• Agency, Country: NASA (USA)
• Scheduled Arrival Date: na
• Mission, Features: JPSS is a new generation of polar-orbiting satellites designed to enhance the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) efforts to forecast weather and track global climate change from space. Under the NOAA-NASA partnership, NOAA is responsible for the JPSS Program, including funding the advanced instruments, sensors and the two planned spacecraft and launch vehicles. NASA is the acquisition and system integrator for JPSS JPSS-1 is the successor to the Suomi-National Polar Partnership (NPP) spacecraft, which was launched in October 2011 as a joint mission between NASA, the Department of Defense and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and operated by the JPSS Program. The JPSS Program is the former National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Program. JPSS-1 will make afternoon observations as it orbits Earth, providing continuity of critical data and imagery observations for accurate weather forecasting and global measurements of atmospheric and oceanic conditions. A contract between NASA and Norway permits usage of the Svalbard Satellite Station ground station to support the JPSS Program requirements (as that contract is also true for the Global Change Observation – Water 1, Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership missions
• Route, Remarks: na
• Status: scheduled
• for more check at NASA site for their dedicated page to that mission, as their Mission Finder is a useful tool

Jason-3

• Scheduled Launch: December 2014, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., Complex 4 aboard a Falcon 9 v1.0 rocket
• Agency, Country: NASA (USA)
• Scheduled Arrival Date: na
• Mission, Features: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Jason-3 spacecraft is a operational ocean altimetry mission designed to measure precisely sea surface height to monitor ocean circulation and sea level. Jason-3 will follow in the tradition of previous missions such as TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1 and the Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason-2. The Jason-3 mission will be developed and operated as part of an international effort led by NOAA and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites in collaboration with NASA and the French space agency, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales. Data will be used in a broad range of applications including operational ocean and weather forecasting, ocean wave modeling, hurricane intensification prediction, seasonal forecasting, El Nino and La Nina forecasting and climate research. The data will also help address questions about global climate change
• Route, Remarks: na
• Status: scheduled
• for more check at NASA site for their dedicated page to that mission, as their Mission Finder is a useful tool

Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R (GOES-R)

• Scheduled Launch: October 2015, aboard a Atlas V 541 rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The launch to be managed by United Launch Services, LLC of Englewood, Colo.
• Agency, Country: NASA (USA)
• Scheduled Arrival Date: na
• Mission, Features: a satellite with advanced spacecraft and instrument technology resulting in more timely and accurate weather forecasts
• Route, Remarks: na
• Status: under study
• for more check at NASA site for their dedicated page to that mission, as their Mission Finder is a useful tool

ICESat-2 (Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2)

• Scheduled Launch: 2016
• Agency, Country: NASA (USA)
• Scheduled Arrival Date: na
• Mission, Features: that Earth science mission is the second generation of the ICESat observatories. ICESat-2 will use precision laser-ranging techniques to measure the topography of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, and the thickness characteristics of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice
• Route, Remarks: the ICESat-2 is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Orbital Science Corporation of Dulles, Va is responsible for the design and fabrication of the ICESat-2 spacecraft bus, integration of the government-furnished instrument, satellite-level testing, on-orbit satellite check-out, and continuing on-orbit engineering support. The work will be performed at the contractor's facility. under the Rapid III multiple awards Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. the principle purpose is to provide core spacecraft systems with any necessary modifications to meet specific mission needs to meet the government’s space science, Earth science and technology needs
• Status: under study
• for more check at NASA site for their dedicated page to that mission, as their Mission Finder is a useful tool

Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-S (GOES-S)

• Scheduled Launch: February 2017, aboard a Atlas V 541 rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The launch to be managed by United Launch Services, LLC of Englewood, Colo.
• Agency, Country: NASA (USA)
• Scheduled Arrival Date: na
• Mission, Features: A satellite with advanced spacecraft and instrument technology resulting in more timely and accurate weather forecasts
• Route, Remarks: na
• Status: under study
• for more check at NASA site for their dedicated page to that mission, as their Mission Finder is a useful tool