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GOES-GOES 12--------
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Weather Satellites: GOES 12
GOES 12 - Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 12
Launch date: July 3, 2001
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. This improvements will be tested and its results will be compared to the information obtained in previous satellite instruments.
Status: Active as GOES-East at 75°W as of June 2005.
GOES 12 - Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 12
Launch date: July 3, 2001
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. This improvements will be tested and its results will be compared to the information obtained in previous satellite instruments.
Status: Active as GOES-East at 75°W as of June 2005.
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