NPOESS - the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
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DMSP satellites operated in a sun-synchronous orbit; passing over the north and south poles, the satellite would see different strips of the Earth at the same local time each day.
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, a United States Department of Defense satellite system
The spatial and temporal dimensions of the occupation processes in Amazonia suggest the use of remote sensing data provided by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP), with the Operational Linescan System (OLS).
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NPOESS was to be a replacement for both the United States Department of Defense's DMSP and the NOAA Polar Operational Environmental Satellites (POES) series.
The United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has built five of these ultraviolet spectrographs for the United States Air Force (USAF) Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) block of 5D3 satellites.