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The NOAA Satellite Operations Facility in Suitland, Maryland, serves as the point of command for GOES mission operations, while the Wallops Command and Data Acquisition Station at Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, handles GOES-16 telemetry, tracking, command, and instrument data.
The GOES satellites are controlled from the Satellite Operations Control Center in Suitland, Maryland. During significant weather or other events, the normal schedules can be altered to provide the coverage requested by the NWS and other agencies. Space Weather -- March 2012. [32]
Ice Patrol headquarters and operations center moved to Governors Island, New York [6] where they remained until October 1983. Today the International Ice Patrol is located at the NOAA Satellite Operations Facility in Suitland, Maryland. Previously, it was located at the Coast Guard Research and Development Center in New London, Connecticut.
Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR; formerly known as Triana, unofficially known as GoreSat [3]) is a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) space weather, space climate, and Earth observation satellite. It was launched by SpaceX on a Falcon 9 v1.1 launch vehicle on 11 February 2015, from Cape Canaveral. [4]
NOAA manages the contract. In addition to work at L3Harris' facility in Melbourne, the contractor will install equipment at the NOAA Satellite Operations Facility (NSOF) in Suitland, Maryland; NOAA's Wallops Command and Data Acquisition Station (WCDAS) in Wallops, Virginia; and at NOAA's Consolidated Backup Facility (CBU) in Fairmont, West ...
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Greenbelt: Naval Air Systems Command: Patuxent River: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Gaithersburg: National Institutes of Health (NIH) Bethesda: National Intelligence University (NIU) Bethesda: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Silver Spring: Nuclear Regulatory ...
NOAA-23: 2033 Estimated (as of Sep 2024) DSCOVR: 1st Gen Deep Space Satellite: DSCOVR: DSCOVR: 2015 GOES: 4th Gen GOES: GOES-R: GOES-16: 2016 GOES: 4th Gen GOES: GOES ...
The U.S. Geological Survey locates the center of Suitland at 38°50'49"N 76°55'33"W. [22] This area is roughly bounded by Southern Avenue (D.C. Line) to the north, Branch Avenue (MD 5) to the west, Pennsylvania Avenue (MD 4) to the east, and Donnell Drive/Suitland Parkway/Meadowbrook Drive (Henson Creek) to the south. Within the northeastern ...