SATELLITES-------
GOES-GOES 8--------
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Weather Satellites:
GOES 8
GOES 8 - Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 8
Launch date: April 13, 1994
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: Decommissioned 8 April 2003
GOES 8 - Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 8
Launch date: April 13, 1994
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: Decommissioned 8 April 2003
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