Space News reports, “On June 25, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) launched the fourth and final satellite of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES)-R program.” The GOES-R team has successfully leveraged “the power of AI and an application called the Advanced Intelligent Monitoring System (AIMS),” to improve both “operational efficiency and mission resilience.”
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NOAA Proposes New Constellation to Replace GOES-R
Space News reports that NOAA’s National Satellite, Data and Information Service “is recommending flying three satellites over the United States in the satellite constellation that will follow the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R Series (GOES-R).” NOAA recommends operating two of the satellites “in orbits similar to those of the current GOES East and GOES West satellites.” Additionally, the agency “recommends placing a third spacecraft over the center of the United States, Pam Sullivan, GOES-R system program director, said Jan. 11 at the virtual American Meteorological Society meeting.” For the program to replace GEOS-R, dubbed Geostationary and Extended Orbits (Geo-XO), NOAA is looking to add instruments “to monitor air quality and ocean color.” NOAA “also expects to mount space weather instruments on Geo-XO satellites.”
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NOAA to Move GOES into Position Over Western United States
Space News reports that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) “will move its next Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) weather satellite into position over the Western United States soon after launch to speed up data delivery to the National Weather Service.” After the GOES-18 satellite is deployed into geostationary transfer orbit, “the satellite will spend about three weeks moving to geostationary orbit.”
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NOAA Releases First Imagery from GOES-18
Spaceflight Now reports that NOAA has “released the first imagery from the new GOES-18 weather satellite that launched March 1 from Cape Canaveral, and confirmed the spacecraft’s main camera doesn’t suffer the same cooling system problem that caused degraded vision in an earlier satellite.” The images were captured “May 5 from a position in geostationary orbit more than 22,000 miles (nearly 36,000 kilometers) over the equator. GOES 18’s primary camera, called the Advanced Baseline Imager, recorded the views in 16 channels, each tuned to see clouds, dust, smoke, and water vapor in different wavelengths of light.”
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