The GOES-T weather satellite is scheduled to launch on March 1st to join the fleet of GOES satellites monitoring weather in the Western Hemisphere. GOES-T will launch on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral carrying advanced instruments to observe weather, oceans, solar activity, and space weather. It will join GOES-16 and GOES-17 in geostationary orbit over 22,000 miles above Earth to continuously scan the planet five times faster than previous satellites. There is a 60% chance of good launch weather on March 1st, improving to 70% on March 2nd if the launch needs to be delayed.
The GOES-T weather satellite is scheduled to launch on March 1st to join the fleet of GOES satellites monitoring weather in the Western Hemisphere. GOES-T will launch on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral carrying advanced instruments to observe weather, oceans, solar activity, and space weather. It will join GOES-16 and GOES-17 in geostationary orbit over 22,000 miles above Earth to continuously scan the planet five times faster than previous satellites. There is a 60% chance of good launch weather on March 1st, improving to 70% on March 2nd if the launch needs to be delayed.
The GOES-T weather satellite is scheduled to launch on March 1st to join the fleet of GOES satellites monitoring weather in the Western Hemisphere. GOES-T will launch on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral carrying advanced instruments to observe weather, oceans, solar activity, and space weather. It will join GOES-16 and GOES-17 in geostationary orbit over 22,000 miles above Earth to continuously scan the planet five times faster than previous satellites. There is a 60% chance of good launch weather on March 1st, improving to 70% on March 2nd if the launch needs to be delayed.
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Advanced new GOES-T weather satellite is 'go' for launch on March 1
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Built by Lockheed Martin, GOES-T (which will
be renamed GOES-18 once in orbit) is the third of four advanced weather satellites designed to serve U.S. meteorological forecast needs through 2036. They are part of NOAA's $11.7 billion GOES-R satellite series program, which launched the GOES-16 weather satellite in The GOES-T satellite is seen before being encapsulated in its payload fairing Astrotech Space Operations facility in 2016 followed by GOES-17 in 2018. A fourth Titusville, Florida so it can be installed atop a United satellite, GOES-U, will follow GOES-T to orbit in Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket ahead of a scheduled March 2024. "The GOES series has revolutionized 1, 2022 launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. (Image credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky severe event monitoring for us with regard to storms and other environmental hazards, such The next advanced weather satellite for the as wildfires, which are always a threat to our United States is officially ready to launch into western states," said Steve Volz, NOAA's orbit this week on an Atlas V rocket. NASA and assistant administrator for satellite and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric information services, in the conference. The Administration (NOAA) cleared the new GOES- first GOES satellite, GOES 1, launched in 1975, T weather satellite for a planned March 1 with NASA and NOAA working together on the launch, the two agencies announced Saturday program. (Feb. 26). Liftoff is set for 4:38 p.m. EST (2138 GMT) from Space Launch Complex 41 at GOES-T will join its fellow GOES satellites in the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in a geostationary orbit 22,300 miles (just over Florida, with the United Launch Alliance 35,800 kilometers) above Earth that will allow conducting the flight. "The spacecraft, the Atlas it to observe weather across the entire V rocket and range equipment are all ready, Western Hemisphere. The satellite's primary and the combined government and contractor instrument is its Advanced Baseline Imager, a launch team is prepared to add GOES-T to the camera for tracking Earth's weather, oceans family and continue this amazing legacy of and environment. It can scan the Earth five these weather sentinels," NASA launch director times faster and with four times the resolution Tim Dunn said in a prelaunch press conference of its predecessors, NOAA officials wrote in an Saturday. GOES is short for Geostationary overview. The new satellite also carries a first- Space @ aglance Library&DocumentationDivision,LPSC Page | 1 Space @ a glance LIBRARY AND DOCUMENTATION DIVISION February 28, 2022
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instrument to detect severe thunderstorms earlier "before they produce damaging winds, hail or even tornadoes," NOAA officials wrote. GOES-T also carries four different instruments to monitor space weather. A solar ultraviolet imager will snap images of the sun while an U.V. and X-ray sensor will detect solar flares. A magnetometer and instrument suite to track energetic particles and changes in Earth's magnetic field from space weather events. "A big part of the GOES-R [series] mission is actually doing solar observations," said Pam Sullivan, NOAA's GOES-R program director. Before GOES-T can begin its weather-watching mission, it does have to reach space. To do that, it will need good weather.
Current forecasts predict a 60% chance of good
weather at launch time on Tuesday, with conditions improving to 70% on Wednesday if NASA and NOAA have to delay for a day, said launch weather officer Jessica Williams of the 45th Weather Squadron at Space Launch Delta in the briefing. If GOES-T is delayed until Thursday (March 3), the mission would come up against another launch by SpaceX to loft a batch of new Starlink internet satellites from Pad 39A of NASA's Kennedy Space Center near the GOES-T launch site. That mission is scheduled to launch at 9:32 a.m. EST (1432 GMT). Dunn, NASA's launch director, said the SpaceX flight will take priority for the morning launch on March 3, but that ULA could still support an afternoon liftoff for GOES-T that same day if needed.
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