Officials Brief Media on Mission of Next-Gen Weather Satellite

Offi­cials Brief Media on Mis­sion of Next-Gen Weath­er Satellite



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Dur­ing a news brief­ing on Nov. 17, offi­cials from NASA and the Nation­al Ocean­ic and Atmos­pher­ic Admin­is­tra­tion (NOAA), pre­viewed the mis­sion of GOES‑R, the first space­craft in a new series of NASA-built advanced geo­sta­tion­ary weath­er satel­lites. GOES‑R is set to launch into orbit aboard a Unit­ed Launch Alliance Atlas V rock­et on Nov. 19, from Space Launch Com­plex 41 at Cape Canaver­al Air Force Sta­tion in Florida.
Once in geo­sta­tion­ary orbit, GOES‑R will be known as GOES-16 and will pro­vide images of weath­er pat­terns and severe storms as reg­u­lar­ly as every five min­utes or as fre­quent­ly as every 30 sec­onds. These images can be used to aid in weath­er fore­casts, severe weath­er out­looks, watch­es and warn­ings, light­ning con­di­tions, mar­itime fore­casts and avi­a­tion fore­casts. It also will assist in longer term fore­cast­ing, such as in sea­son­al pre­dic­tions and drought outlooks.



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