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Capt. Melissa Bierma stands next to an engineering model of a GOES sounder satellite component Sept. 26, 2014, at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s satellite operations facility in Suitland, Md. The GOES sounder is a radiometer designed to provide data that allows meteorologists to deduce atmospheric temperature and moisture profiles. Bierma is satellite operator and executive officer with Detachment 1, 50th Space Operations Group. The geographically separated unit manages the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program – the only weather satellite system in the DOD – in cooperation with NOAA. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Alexander W. Riedel)
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