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- [Source: NASA Home Page, http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GOES-O/main/index.html ]
The GOES-O satellite lifted off from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 6:51 p.m. EDT [2009-06-27] atop a Delta IV rocket. From a position about 22,300 miles above Earth, the advanced weather satellite will keep an unblinking eye on atmospheric conditions in the Eastern United States and Atlantic Ocean.
[Source: GOES project Office NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, http://goespoes.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/spacecraft/goes_o_spacecraft.html ]
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-O represents a continuation of the newest generation of environmental satellites built by Boeing for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the technical guidance and project management of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. GOES satellites provide the familiar weather pictures seen on United States television newscasts every day. The GOES imaging and sounding instruments (built by ITT) feature flexible scans for small-scale area viewing in regions of the visible and infrared spectrum allowing meteorologists to improve short-term forecasts. GOES provides nearly continuous imaging and sounding, which allow forecasters to better measure changes in atmospheric temperature and moisture distributions and hence increase the accuracy of their forecasts. GOES environmental information is used for a host of applications, including weather monitoring and prediction models, ocean temperatures and moisture locations, climate studies, cryosphere (ice, snow, glaciers) detection and extent, land temperatures and crop conditions, and hazards detection. The GOES-O&P Imagers have improved resolution in the 13 micrometer channel from 8 km to 4 km. The finer spatial resolution allows an improved cloud-top product, height of atmospheric motion vectors and volcanic ash detection. GOES-O continues the improved image navigation and registration, additional power and fuel lifetime capability, space weather, solar x-ray imaging, search and rescue, and communication services as provided on GOES-13. GOES-P is also in ground storage following the completion of environmental testing and is prepared for an April 2009 launch readiness with a July 2010, engineering handover date requirement. Summary provided by http://goespoes.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/spacecraft/goes_o_spacecraft.html Group: Platform_Details Entry_ID: GOES-14 Group: Platform_Identification Platform_Category: Earth Observation Satellites Platform_Series_or_Entity: GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) Short_Name: GOES-14 Long_Name: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 14 End_Group Group: Platform_Associated_Instruments Short_Name: SEM Short_Name: SXI Short_Name: GOES N-P IMAGER Short_Name: GOES N-P SOUNDER End_Group Group: Orbit Orbit_Type: GEO > GEOSYNCHRONOUS > GEOSTATIONARY End_Group Creation_Date: 2009-02-12 Online_Resource: http://goespoes.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/spacecraft/goes_o_spacecraft.html Online_Resource: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=2009-033A Online_Resource: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GOES-O/main/index.html Online_Resource: http://nasascience.nasa.gov/missions/goes-n-o-p Online_Resource: http://www.oso.noaa.gov/goes Online_Resource: http://goes.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Sample_Image: http://goespoes.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/launchinfo/images/GOESN_launch.jpg Group: Platform_Logistics Launch_Date: 2009-06-27 Launch_Site: Cape Canaveral/Kennedy Space Center, USA Primary_Sponsor: USA/NASA Primary_Sponsor: USA/NOAA End_Group End_Group
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