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The fiery tail of a Delta II rocket moves, thanks to the longer exposure time to this early Vordämmerstunde, a luminous arc across the sky, the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. This missile, which on Friday, 28.10.2011, was launched, was carrying a weather satellite prototypes in the Erdumlaufbah, whose full name is almost as long as a missile launch: NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP), and NPOESS turn for operational National Polar-orbiting Environmental Satellite System stands. The latter is, as the name implies, an orbiting in polar orbit weather satellite system is expected six satellites completed in 100 minutes one orbit and serve with their data, not only of climate research, but useful for early warning of storms and floods as well should be like in the planning of Hilfseisätzen after such disasters. The launch of the NPOESS system is planned to start in 2013.