enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. GOES 10 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOES_10

    GOES-10 was operated at 135° West until 27 June 2006, when it was replaced by GOES-11, as it was running low on fuel. [6] It remained operational as a backup satellite until GOES-13 became operational, and was then moved to a new position at 60° West, from where it provided data on South America, and monitored the Main Development Region to ...

  3. Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_Operational...

    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.

  4. List of GOES satellites - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GOES_satellites

    GOES-L: GOES-11: 3 May 2000, 07:07: Atlas IIA: CCAFS SLC-36A: 135° W: 17 May 2000: Retired: 16 December 2011 [13] Retired, Drifting west GOES-M: GOES-12: 23 July 2001, 07:23: Atlas IIA: CCAFS SLC-36A: 60° W: 17 August 2001: Retired: 16 August 2013: Operated at GOES-South covering South America, and retained as spare, following replacement at ...

  5. GOES-18 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOES-18

    GOES-18 (designated pre-launch as GOES-T) is the third of the "GOES-R Series", the current generation of weather satellites operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The current and next satellites of the Series ( GOES-16 , GOES-17 , GOES-18, and GOES-19 ) will extend the availability of the Geostationary ...

  6. National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Environmental...

    Current satellites owned and/or operated by NESDIS include NOAA-15, NOAA-18, NOAA-19, NOAA-20, NOAA-21, GOES-13/EWS-G1, GOES-14, GOES-15/EWS-G2 GOES-16, GOES-17, Jason-3, and DSCOVR. [2] Since May 1998 NESIDS has operated the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellites on behalf of the United States Space Force .

  7. List of National Weather Service Weather Forecast Offices

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_National_Weather...

    Map of regions covered by the 122 Weather Forecast Offices. The National Weather Service operates 122 weather forecast offices. [1] [2] Each weather forecast office (WFO or NWSFO) has a geographic area of responsibility, also known as a county warning area, for issuing local public, marine, aviation, fire, and hydrology forecasts.

  8. North Warning System - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Warning_System

    The Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line, constructed in the late 1950s, was reaching obsolescence in the 1980s.With the signing of North American Air Defence Modernization agreement at the "Shamrock Summit" between Prime Minister Mulroney and President Reagan in Quebec City on 18 March 1985, the DEW Line began its eventual upgrading and transition becoming the North Warning System (NWS) of today.

  9. GOES 13 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOES_13

    The GOES-13 GVAR and (Low Rate Information Transmission) LRIT were relayed through GOES-14 until 8 January 2018, at which time the GOES-13 GVAR relay through GOES-14 GVAR was disabled. GOES-13 ceased transmitting data, began drifting to its storage location at 60.0° West on 9 January 2018, and arrived there on 31 January 2018. [ 19 ]