I have to admit to not being much of a GOES user. Most of what I do doesn’t depend much on the kind of data we have traditionally gotten from geosynchronous satellites. But, I am excited for the GOES-R launch tomorrow. Assuming everything goes as planned, the Atlas rocket carrying GOES-R will lift off from its pad in Florida and carry the satellite out to an orbit 36,000km above the equator where it will officially become GOES-16. From there, GOES-16 will start taking pictures of Earth in incredibly fine detail, mapping lightning, measuring activity on the sun, and in Earth’s magnetic field. This data will form the backbone of a new generation of American Earth/Space/Sun weather observations. Godspeed, GOES-R!
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