NOAA-19, designated NOAA-N' (NOAA-N Prime) prior to launch, is the last of the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's POES series of weather satellites. NOAA-19 was launched on February 6, 2009.
On November 4, 2008, NASA announced that the satellite had arrived at Vandenberg aboard a C-5 Galaxy military transport aircraft. Installation of the payload fairing took place January 27, 2009; second stage propellant was loaded on January 31.
Several attempts were made to conduct the launch. The first attempt was scrubbed after a failure was detected in a launch pad gaseous nitrogen pressurization system. The second attempt was scrubbed after the failure of a payload fairing air conditioning compressor, which is also part of the ground support equipment at the launch pad.
The satellite was successfully launched at about 2:22 a.m. PST. February 6, 2009 aboard a Delta II flying in the 7320 configuration from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Instruments: A-DCS (Advanced Data Collection System) AMSU-A (Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit - A) AVHRR/3 (Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer / 3) HIRS/4 (High-resolution Infra Red Sounder / 4) MHS (Microwave Humidity Sounding) S&RSAT (Search & Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking System) SBUV/2 (Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet / 2) SEM/MEPED (SEM / Medium energy proton detector) SEM/TED (SEM/ Total Energy Detector)
Meteorology, agriculture and forestry, environmental monitoring, climatology, physical oceanography, volcanic eruption monitoring, ice and snow cover, total ozone studies, space environment, solar flux analysis, search and rescue
