For a few brief moments Saturday night, the meteorological community held its collective breath as United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket took off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral. Its payload couldn’t ...
The propulsion module (left) and system module (right) of the first GOES-R series weather satellite at Lockheed Martin’s cleanroom near Denver. Credit: Lockheed Martin WASHINGTON — The first of four ...
The projected cost of the U.S. government’s next generation of geostationary orbiting weather satellites likely will rise again, according to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ...
What did you do this weekend? Well if you were NASA, you successfully launched NOAA’s brand-spanking new weather satellite GOES-R. Packed with six instruments, this geostationary satellite will be ...
A powerful new weather satellite, the first of four at the heart of a nearly $11 billion upgrade to the nation’s forecasting infrastructure, completed a fifth and final main engine rocket firing ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The latest in America’s next generation of high-tech weather satellites is one step closer to launch. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R ...
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – 3-2-1 liftoff! The final weather satellite in the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites R series (GOES-R) launched Tuesday evening at 5:26 PM from Cape Canaveral ...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- A new generation of weather satellite, called GOES-R, will lift off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center in just under 24 hours. It has been in the works for almost 20 years and ...
Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. An Atlas V rocket is all set to launch this afternoon from Cape Canaveral, Florida, sending a NASA-built weather ...
It doesn’t matter where you get your weather forecast. With the newest weather satellite in orbit, prediction models will probably improve overnight. The GOES-R satellite was launched from Cape ...
A new environmental-monitoring satellite poised to launch into space on Saturday (Nov. 19) will fly a lightning mapper higher than ever before, allowing for better severe-storm monitoring across the ...
It doesn’t matter where you get your weather forecast. With the newest weather satellite in orbit, prediction models will probably improve overnight. The GOES-R satellite was launched from Cape ...