At a Glance

Tuesday's launch of the JPPS-1 weather satellite was aborted just minutes before liftoff.The launch has been rescheduled for Wednesday.Once in orbit, the satellite will be renamed NOAA-20.

United Launch Alliance has rescheduled the launch of a next-generation weather satellite for Wednesday aftera rocket issue prevented a planned liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Tuesday morning, NASA says.

According to NASA, the launch was after scientists detected a bad reading on the first stage of satellite's United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket. Boats located in the safety zone also forced the scrub, NASA officials said.

The launch is rescheduled for 4:47 ET Wednesday atVandenberg Air Force Base.

Once in orbit, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Joint Polar Satellite System-1will and sendbackdata that will help meteorologists make forecasts, according to the NationalWeather Service. In fact,85 percent of the data used for weather forecast models come from polar-orbiting satellites similar to the JPSS-1.

by extending the current 30-year satellite data record, according to a 2016 release.

Jon Erdman, weather.com's senior meteorologist, says thestate-of-the-art satellite, which will be renamed NOAA-20 once in orbit, will sendimagery that isn't"what you typically see on a weather website or TV weather segment."

"These so-called polar-orbiting satellites collect data that is essential to gain a picture of the current state of weather around the globe, including over parts of the world where data is lacking," Erdman said."Satellites like JPSS-1 are an essential foundation for global weather forecasts and for general monitoring of the planet."

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The JPSS-1 will also provide scientists with observations during severe weather events such ashurricanes, tornadoes and blizzards that will helpimprove forecasting, particularly in thethree-to-seven-day window ahead of a severe weather event.

Using five advanced instruments, the atmospheric temperature, moisture and rainfall, according to space.com.

In addition, theand the ozone hole hovering over Antarctica, two major indicators of global warming, Scientific American reports.

"The reason why there is so much cross-agency support and international support for these missions is because the total amount of diverse and irreplaceable data enables so much more science to be done, it's not just weather forecasts, it's not just climate, but it's all sorts of small-scale meteorology, large-scale deforestation, tracking pollution, tracking smoke fields, tracking ash where there is a volcano,"NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies director and climatologist Gavin Schmidt told Scientific American.