Roland Coelho, Educational Launch of Nanosatellite (ELaNa) Program Lead, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, talks to reporters about the ELaNa mission which will launch on the Delta II rocket with the NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) spacecraft at a briefing held on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. NPP is the first NASA satellite mission to address the challenge of acquiring a wide range of land, ocean, and atmospheric measurements for Earth system science while simultaneously preparing to address operational requirements for weather forecasting. NPP is scheduled to launch early Friday morning on a Delta II rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
