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GOES-GOES 10--------
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Weather Satellites: GOES 10
GOES 10 - Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 10
Launch date: April 25, 1997
Launch site: Cape Canaveral, Florida
Launch vehicle: Atlas-I/Centaur
PROGRAM OBJECTIVE:
The GOES system is a basic element of U.S. weather monitoring and forecast operations and is a key component of NWS modernization program. Spacecraft and ground-based systems work together to accomplish the GOES mission of providing weather imagery and quantitative sounding data for weather forecasting and related services. The new series of GOES satellites provides significant improvements over the previous GOES system in weather imagery and atmospheric sounding information.
Status: Active as GOES-West at 135°W as of June 2005.
GOES 10 - Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 10
Launch date: April 25, 1997
Launch site: Cape Canaveral, Florida
Launch vehicle: Atlas-I/Centaur
PROGRAM OBJECTIVE:
The GOES system is a basic element of U.S. weather monitoring and forecast operations and is a key component of NWS modernization program. Spacecraft and ground-based systems work together to accomplish the GOES mission of providing weather imagery and quantitative sounding data for weather forecasting and related services. The new series of GOES satellites provides significant improvements over the previous GOES system in weather imagery and atmospheric sounding information.
Status: Active as GOES-West at 135°W as of June 2005.
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