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Weather Satellites:
GOES 9
GOES 9 - Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 9
Launch date: May 23, 1995
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 of 12 July 2004 at 154.5°E longitude as backup for JMA, imaging western Pacific area.
GOES 9 - Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 9
Launch date: May 23, 1995
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 of 12 July 2004 at 154.5°E longitude as backup for JMA, imaging western Pacific area.
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