NOAA, NASA planning fall launch of new weather satellite

ASA are set to launch the first in a new generation of weather satellites this fall. The GOES-R series, short for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite – R Series, are scheduled to launch between 2016 and 2025. The first satellite, GOES-R, is scheduled to launch Nov. 4, 2016. Kathryn Miretzky of Science and Technology Corporation spoke about the satellite at the 44th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology in Austin on June 15. She said the GOES-R satellites will use an advanced baseline imager (ABI). This means the satellite will be able to give a “full disk” image of the earth every 15 minutes, and images from the continental United States every five minutes. Resolution of the images will be 0.5 to 2 kilometers each. More

(Source: KVUE.com/ - Jun 16)