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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.
GOES-12 to 15: Inactive NASA 2001 Monitored weather for NOAA. [30] GRACE-1 and 2: Inactive NASA and German Space Agency: 2002 Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment. Tracked changes in global sea levels, glaciers, and ice sheets, as well as large lake and river water levels, and soil moisture. [31] Retired 2017. [32] ICESat: Inactive NASA 2003
SMS-derived GOES satellite This is a list of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites . GOES spacecraft are operated by the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , with NASA responsible for research and development, and later procurement of spacecraft.
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 ...
GOES-16 serves as the operational geostationary weather satellite in the GOES East position at 75.2°W, providing a view centered on the Americas. GOES-16 provides high spatial and temporal resolution imagery of the Earth through 16 spectral bands at visible and infrared wavelengths using its Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI). GOES-16's ...
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.
NOAA's GOES-R Series of satellites is designed to improve the forecasts of weather, ocean, and environment by providing faster and more detailed data, real-time images of lightning, and advanced monitoring of solar activities and space weather. GOES-17 can collect three times more data at four times image resolution, and scan the planet five ...
The launch window is 2:40 a.m. and 6:30 a.m., Thursday, March 21. Early morning commuters along the East Coast may see a ball of fire blaze across the sky Thursday, March 21, and NASA is getting ...