A Falcon Heavy rocket launched a new weather satellite into orbit from the Space Coast on Tuesday evening.The ‘GOES-U’ satellite is the newest and final addition to NOAA’s GOES-R series of satellites. GOES stands for Geostationary Operational Environment Satellite Series.The launch occurred at 5:26 p.m. on Tuesday The satellites provide advanced imagery, real-time mapping of lightning activity, and monitoring of space weather.Onboard will be the Advanced Baseline Imager, an instrument used for imaging Earth’s oceans, weather, and environment.Ken Graham, the director of the National Weather Service, said having that type of technology and quicker data will help when it comes to detecting severe weather.Related: New NOAA weather satellite to beam data faster than everThe satellite will be equipped with a new sensor called the Compact Coronagraph which will help detect solar flares quicker than ever. “We’ll have new data every 30 minutes instead of 8 hours before. That’s a game changer when it comes to space weather watches and warnings,” Graham said.In addition to improving response time for spotting geomagnetic storms, Graham said the resolution on the new satellite will pick up small details about weather events on Earth that were missed before.”It’s not just the storm itself, it’s the environment around it to be able to see if there’s wind shear, to be able to see if there’s any sort of obstacles in the way, so to speak, in the atmosphere that could adjust the storm. So, all of those play into our forecast,” he said.
A Falcon Heavy rocket launched a new weather satellite into orbit from the Space Coast on Tuesday evening.
The ‘GOES-U’ satellite is the newest and final addition to NOAA’s GOES-R series of satellites. GOES stands for Geostationary Operational Environment Satellite Series.
The launch occurred at 5:26 p.m. on Tuesday
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The satellites provide advanced imagery, real-time mapping of lightning activity, and monitoring of space weather.
Onboard will be the Advanced Baseline Imager, an instrument used for imaging Earth’s oceans, weather, and environment.
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Ken Graham, the director of the National Weather Service, said having that type of technology and quicker data will help when it comes to detecting severe weather.
Related: New NOAA weather satellite to beam data faster than ever
The satellite will be equipped with a new sensor called the Compact Coronagraph which will help detect solar flares quicker than ever.
“We’ll have new data every 30 minutes instead of 8 hours before. That’s a game changer when it comes to space weather watches and warnings,” Graham said.
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In addition to improving response time for spotting geomagnetic storms, Graham said the resolution on the new satellite will pick up small details about weather events on Earth that were missed before.
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“It’s not just the storm itself, it’s the environment around it to be able to see if there’s wind shear, to be able to see if there’s any sort of obstacles in the way, so to speak, in the atmosphere that could adjust the storm. So, all of those play into our forecast,” he said.
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