GOES-16 to be replaced by GOES-19 around April 2025
GOES-19 will monitor Western Hemisphere and improve space weather monitoring and forecasting
GOES-U launch improves detection of space weather hazards such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections
New GOES-19 weather satellite launched on June 25, 2024
Partnership between NOAA and NASA involves more than 60 satellites for weather forecasting, climate studies, and storm prediction
Satellite's five science instruments include new compact chronograph instrument (CCOR-1)
A new weather satellite, GOES-U, was successfully launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 25, 2024. The satellite is the final member of NOAA's GOES-R series and will be renamed GOES-19 once it reaches its geostationary orbit, 22,236 miles above Earth. GOES-19 will monitor the Western Hemisphere with its five science instruments and play a significant role in studying space weather using its new compact chronograph instrument (CCOR-1). The satellite will replace GOES-16, which currently occupies the GOES East position in the satellite network. After launch, there will be an extended series of checkouts before the satellite takes the place of GOES-16, expected around April 2025. The five-decade partnership between NOAA and NASA involves more than 60 satellites for weather forecasting, climate studies, and storm prediction. The Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) satellite system is set to launch in 2032 as the successor to the current GOES-R series. The launch of GOES-U is particularly significant as it will improve the detection of space weather hazards, including solar flares and coronal mass ejections, and provide real-time mapping of lightning activity on Earth. This will help forecasters better predict potential risks such as flash flooding, hail, damaging winds or tornadoes.
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket launched NOAA's GOES-U weather satellite from Kennedy Space Center's Launchpad 39A.
GOES-U is the last in NOAA's GOES-R series of satellites.
The satellite will work its way to a position more than 22,000 miles above Earth once in orbit.
NOAA Administrator Dr. Rick Spinrad explained that GOES-U will ensure the US has tools for severe weather alerts and space weather forecasts.
GOES-U carries the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) and Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM).
The addition of a compact chronograph in GOES-U improves space weather forecasting by monitoring the Sun's outer atmosphere for solar eruptions or coronal mass ejections.
GOES-U will become NOAA's GOES-East satellite, watching over North and South America and the surrounding oceans.
NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration launched GOES-U, a weather satellite, on Tuesday.
GOES-U is the fourth, final satellite in the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites R Series.
Once GOES-U reaches geostationary orbit, it will be renamed GOES-19 and work in tandem with GOES-18.
GOES-U carries multiple instruments that will improve the detection of space weather hazards, including the Compact Coronagraph-1.
The coronagraph can detect solar flares and coronal mass ejections, as well as characterize their size, velocity, density and direction.
NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center will be able to issue warnings and watches one to four days in advance thanks to the Compact Coronagraph-1.
GOES-U will monitor weather, climate and environmental hazards across North, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west coast of Africa.
GOES-U will carry the first operational lightning mapper flown in geostationary orbit.
Understanding how storms develop and intensify can help meteorologists to better predict potential risks such as flash flooding, hail, damaging winds or tornadoes.
The lightning mapper will take pictures of the Earth at a rate of 500 times per second to track lightning.
GOES-U can also identify risks of wildfires and monitor atmospheric river events that can cause flooding and mudslides.
The satellite can collect climate data on Earth’s oceans, such as signs of marine heat waves and sea surface temperatures.
GOES-U has launched successfully on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.
GOES-U is the final member of NOAA’s GOES-R series of Earth-observing craft.
The satellite will be renamed GOES-19 once it reaches its geostationary orbit, 22,236 miles above Earth.
GOES-19 will monitor the Western Hemisphere with its five science instruments and play a significant role in studying space weather using its new compact chronograph instrument (CCOR-1).
The satellite will replace GOES-16, which currently occupies the GOES East position in the satellite network.
After launch, there will be an extended series of checkouts before the satellite takes the place of GOES-16, expected around April 2025.
The five-decade partnership between NOAA and NASA involves more than 60 satellites for weather forecasting, climate studies, and storm prediction.
The Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) satellite system is set to launch in 2032 as the successor to the current GOES-R series.
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]The GOES-U weather satellite has launched successfully on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.[
GOES-U is the newest and final addition to NOAA’s GOES-R series of satellites.
GOES satellites provide advanced imagery, real-time mapping of lightning activity, and monitoring of space weather.
The satellite will be equipped with a new sensor called Compact Coronagraph to help detect solar flares quicker.
