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The launch of GOES-N, which was renamed GOES-13 after attaining orbit. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES), operated by the United States' National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service division, supports weather forecasting, severe storm tracking, and meteorology research.
A CME is a large outburst of plasma sent from the Sun towards interplanetary space. Together with space weather observation capabilities on the Earth-orbiting GOES-U satellite, SWFO-L1 constitutes the space segment of NOAA's Space Weather Follow On (SWFO) program. The aim of the SWFO program is to ensure the robust continuity of space-based ...
The SpaceX rocket carrying the new GOES-U satellite sits on launchpad 39A at Kennedy Space Center ahead of the Tuesday launch. - Miguel J. Rodriguea Carrillo/AFP/Getty Images
Space weather Part of the Solar Terrestrial Probes program. Under NASA's SMD Rideshare Initiative, two secondary spacecraft will be launched along with IMAP to the Sun–Earth L 1 point. Falcon 9 First Stage Booster will be expended in this mission. September (TBD) [27] [28] Falcon 9 Block 5: Cape Canaveral or Kennedy: SpaceX: SpainSat NG II ...
An illustration of what the GOES-T weather satellite would look like in space. (NOAA) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) fleet of weather-watching satellites is about to ...
SpaceX's weather-satellite launch will provide advanced imagery and atmospheric measurements of Earth's weather, oceans, and environment, NASA said.
GOES-U also carries a copy of the Naval Research Laboratory's Compact CORonagraph (CCOR) instrument which, along with the CCOR planned for Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1), will allow continued monitoring of solar wind after the retirement of the NASA-ESA SOHO satellite in 2025. [8] [9]
On 14 April 2010, GOES-13 became the operational weather satellite for GOES-East. [3] It was replaced by GOES-16 on 18 December 2017 [4] and on 8 January 2018 its instruments were shut off and it began its three-week drift to an on-orbit storage location at 60.0° West longitude, arriving on 31 January 2018.