SATELLITES-------
GOES-GOES 11--------
GOES-GOES 11--------
Weather Satellites: GOES 11
GOES 11 - Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 11
Launch date: May 3, 2000
Launch site: Cape Canaveral, Florida
Launch vehicle: Atlas 2A
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: Operational Storage mode at 96°W as of June 2005.
GOES 11 - Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 11
Launch date: May 3, 2000
Launch site: Cape Canaveral, Florida
Launch vehicle: Atlas 2A
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: Operational Storage mode at 96°W as of June 2005.
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