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A comprehensive test program was conducted at the Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems facility in 2016\u20132017, including extensive environmental testing. The pre-launch thermal band radiometric performance and stability is the focus of this work including: the evaluation of a number of sensor performance metrics, comparison to the design requirements, and the estimation of uncertainties. Comparisons of the thermal band performance to the earlier Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (SNPP) and JPSS-1 VIIRS instruments as well as the design specifications have shown that JPSS-2 VIIRS exhibits similar performance to its predecessors. 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