SATELLITES-------
GOES-GOES 13--------
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Weather Satellites: GOES N
GOES N (13) - Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 13
Launch date: June 23, 2005 (scheduled)
Launch site: Cape Canaveral, Florida
Launch vehicle: Delta 4
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: To be launched as orbital spare.
GOES N (13) - Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 13
Launch date: June 23, 2005 (scheduled)
Launch site: Cape Canaveral, Florida
Launch vehicle: Delta 4
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: To be launched as orbital spare.
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