| NPP: Post-launch news briefing |
Date: November 2, 2011
Duration: 12 min 31 sec
This is the post-launch news conference held at 5:30 a.m. local time from Vandenberg Air Force Base after the Delta 2 rocket departed Earth with the NPP spacecraft. |  |
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| NPP: CubeSats released from rocket |
Date: November 2, 2011
Duration: 7 min 20 sec
A half-dozen student-made CubeSats hitching a ride aboard the Delta 2 rocket's second stage are ejected into orbit -- AubieSat 1, DICE, Explorer 1 (Prime) Unit 2, M-Cubed and RAX 2. |  |
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| Delta 357: Launch success |
Date: November 2, 2011
Duration: 4 min 56 sec
NASA launch manager Tim Dunn reviews the countdown and ascent of the United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket that successfully deployed the NPP spacecraft. |  |
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| NPP deployed into orbit |
Date: November 2, 2011
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
The NPP climate and weather observatory is released from the United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket after a successful climb to orbit. |  |
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| NPP launch as seen live |
Date: November 2, 2011
Duration: 6 min 56 sec
The United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket blasts off from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 2:48:01 a.m. carrying the NPP climate and weather observatory. |  |
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| NPP launch replay: South of the pad |
Date: November 2, 2011
Duration: 3 min 19 sec
The launch of the Delta 2 rocket with the NPP spacecraft is captured from this camera located west of the pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base. (Replay includes live launch audio). |  |
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| NPP launch replay: West of the pad |
Date: November 2, 2011
Duration: 55 sec
The launch of the Delta 2 rocket with the NPP spacecraft is captured from this camera located west of the pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base. (Replay includes live launch audio). |  |
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| NPP launch replay: Santa Ynez infrared |
Date: November 2, 2011
Duration: 4 min 48 sec
The infrared tracking camera at Santa Ynez follows the Delta 2 rocket during its first stage of flight away from Vandenberg Air Force Base with the NPP spacecraft. (Replay includes live launch audio). |  |
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| NPP: Gantry retracted from rocket |
Date: November 2, 2011
Duration: 2 min 40 sec
In preparation for blastoff, the mobile service gantry at Vandenberg Air Force Base's Space Launch Complex 2 is rolled away from the Delta 2 rocket. |  |
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| NPP: Previewing Delta's ascent |
Date: November 2, 2011
Duration: 5 min 57 sec
Learn about the United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket's flight trajectory to deploy the NPP spacecraft into polar orbit. |  |
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| NPP: Rocket's pre-launch campaign |
Date: November 2, 2011
Duration: 9 min 37 sec
This narrated movie compiles the highlights from the Delta 2 rocket's pre-flight campaign at Vandenberg Air Force Base in preparation to launch the NPP spacecraft. |  |
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| NPP: Satellite's pre-launch campaign |
Date: November 2, 2011
Duration: 8 min 59 sec
This narrated movie compiles the highlights of the NPP spacecraft undergoing its pre-launch preparation campaign in Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. |  |
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| NPP science interview |
Date: November 2, 2011
Duration: 6 min 56 sec
This is a pre-launch interview with Jim Gleason, the NPP project scientist from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. |  |
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| NPP: Pre-flight overview briefing |
Date: October 12, 2011
Duration: 27 min 17 sec
Officials from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration introduce the upcoming NPP climate and weather satellite mission in this pre-flight briefing. |  |
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