NASA on Nostr: NASA, SpaceX Launch NOAA’s Latest Weather Satellite ========== NASA successfully ...
NASA, SpaceX Launch NOAA’s Latest Weather Satellite
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NASA successfully launched the fourth and final satellite in a series of advanced weather satellites for NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) at 5:26 p.m. EDT on June 25, 2024. The GOES-U (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) was launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The spacecraft's solar arrays successfully deployed, and it was operating on its own power. The GOES-U satellite is the final satellite in the GOES-R series and will provide continuous coverage of the Western Hemisphere, including monitoring tropical systems in the eastern Pacific and Atlantic oceans. It will be renamed GOES-19 once it is in a geostationary orbit, about 22,200 miles above Earth. GOES-U goes beyond the capabilities of its predecessors with a new space weather instrument, the Compact Coronograph-1, which blocks the Sun’s bright light so scientists can observe the relatively fainter solar atmosphere. The GOES constellation of satellites also helps forecasters predict space weather near Earth that can interfere with satellite electronics, GPS, and radio communications. The GOES-R Series Program is overseen by NOAA, and the GOES-R series satellites are designed, built, and tested by Lockheed Martin, with the main instrument payload provided by L3Harris Technologies.
#Nasa #Spacex #Noaa #WeatherSatellite #Goesu #GoesrSeries
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-spacex-launch-noaas-latest-weather-satellite/
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NASA successfully launched the fourth and final satellite in a series of advanced weather satellites for NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) at 5:26 p.m. EDT on June 25, 2024. The GOES-U (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) was launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The spacecraft's solar arrays successfully deployed, and it was operating on its own power. The GOES-U satellite is the final satellite in the GOES-R series and will provide continuous coverage of the Western Hemisphere, including monitoring tropical systems in the eastern Pacific and Atlantic oceans. It will be renamed GOES-19 once it is in a geostationary orbit, about 22,200 miles above Earth. GOES-U goes beyond the capabilities of its predecessors with a new space weather instrument, the Compact Coronograph-1, which blocks the Sun’s bright light so scientists can observe the relatively fainter solar atmosphere. The GOES constellation of satellites also helps forecasters predict space weather near Earth that can interfere with satellite electronics, GPS, and radio communications. The GOES-R Series Program is overseen by NOAA, and the GOES-R series satellites are designed, built, and tested by Lockheed Martin, with the main instrument payload provided by L3Harris Technologies.
#Nasa #Spacex #Noaa #WeatherSatellite #Goesu #GoesrSeries
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-spacex-launch-noaas-latest-weather-satellite/