NOAA and NASA have announced a contract modification for the NOAA N'
 satellite. The satellite will not now be launched until February 2009.
 The specific details released a few days ago and courtesy of NOAA are :-
 
 NOAA and NASA announced today a $34 million contract modification award with
 Lockheed Martin of Sunnyvale, Calif. The contract modification establishes a
 storage date for N-Prime of March 7, 2008, at which time Lockheed Martin
 will have completed satellite integration and testing. Instead of going
 directly to launch, N-Prime will be placed in storage for five months, and
 then be prepared for a February 2009 launch.