A powerful new weather satellite, promising better forecasts for everything to hurricanes to wildfires, is on its way to orbit after a Tuesday afternoon launch from Florida.
The GOES-T weather satellite blasted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Base on time just after 4:30 p.m., roaring through the breezy blue skies atop an Atlas V rocket. The 20-foot-long, 11,000-pound craft will climb to an orbit over 22,000 miles high, joining others in NOAA’s weather-monitoring constellation.
The GOES program dates back to 1975, when the first satellite known as GOES-A launched from Cape Canaveral. As the name implies, the craft operate in a geostationary orbit – one in which their orbital speed matches the speed of the Earth’s rotation. That keeps them over the same spot of the globe at all times.
, providing higher-resolution images of the planet in near real-time. Data is available to NOAA within two to three minutes after the spacecraft sees the weather.
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