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NASA Kids' Cartoon Interviews a "GOES-O" Weather Satellite Engineer
NASA's Space Place is a website that helps kids learn about Earth and space science and technology. The latest interview on the website's animated "Television show," called Space Place Live! features a scientist from the weather satellite that NASA is launching in 2009, called "GOES-O."
Mission News
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GOES-R EXIS Instrument Ready for Integration
05.02.13 - The first of six instruments that will fly on GOES-R, NOAA’s next-generation of geostationary operational environmental satellites, has been completed on schedule, seven months before its scheduled installation onto the spacecraft.
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NOAA and NASA's Next Generation Weather Satellite May Provide Earlier Warnings
02.28.13 - The GOES-R satellite currently being built has new technology that may help provide earlier warnings for severe weather.
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Satellite Sees Giant 'Fog Ring' in U.S. Southwest
10.05.12 - The GOES-14 satellite saw a ring of fog over the southwestern United States on Oct. 4.
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GOES Satellite Movie Tracked Tornadic Texas Trouble
04.04.12 - A powerful weather system moved through eastern Texas and dropped at least 15 tornadoes in the Dallas suburbs. This animation of GOES-13 satellite data shows the storms.
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GOES-15 Active; GOES-11 Deactivated After 12 Years
12.08.11 - For 12 years, GOES-11 tracked weather and severe storms that affected the U.S. West Coast, Hawaii and the Pacific region.
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System 95P (South Pacific Ocean)
01.20.11 - NASA's TRMM satellite is keeping an eye on a developing low pressure area in the South Pacific Ocean that may become the next tropical depression.
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GOES Satellites Looking Back at 2010
12.30.10 - A year in review -- looking at the GOES project and how it looks at our world.
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GOES-13 Satellite Captures Powerful Snowmaker Leaving New England
12.27.10 - A powerful low pressure system brought blizzard conditions from northern New Jersey to Maine over Christmas weekend. The GOES-13 satellite captured an image of the low's center off the Massachusetts coast and saw the snowfall left behind.
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GOES-13 Satellite Captures Powerful Snowmaker Leaving New England
12.27.10 - A powerful low pressure system brought blizzard conditions from northern New Jersey to Maine over Christmas weekend. The GOES-13 satellite captured an image of the low's center off the Massachusetts coast and saw the snowfall left behind.
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Newest GOES Satellite Ready for Action
09.01.10 - The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-15 (also known as GOES-P), has been accepted into service.
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See What's Brewing in 'Hurricane Alleys'
07.13.10 - GOES scientists have developed continually updating 'movies' of satellite imagery that allow online, iPhone and iPad viewing of any storm's movement in the Atlantic Ocean or Eastern Pacific Ocean.
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Darby (Eastern Pacific Ocean)
06.29.10 - A trough is an elongated area of low pressure and that's what the remnants of the once major hurricane known as Darby are becoming today.
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GOES-15 Solar X-Ray Imager's Miraculous First Light
06.14.10 - The Solar X-Ray Imager instrument aboard GOES-15 just provided its first glimpse of the sun - an image we almost didn't get to see.
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NASA/NOAA Make Hurricane Season 2009 Movie
06.01.10 - The NASA/NOAA GOES Project is releasing a comprehensive 6 minute video of the 2009 hurricane season to kick off the Atlantic Ocean hurricane season that starts June 1.
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Sailor Reflects on NASA Technology That Saved His Life
05.24.10 - Dennis Clements thought his life was over when, during a trip to the Caribbean, his boat capsized and left him floating 250 miles away from shore.
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New Video "GOES" Exploring the Sun's Weather
05.07.10 - NASA has just released a four-minute educational video called "A Weather Satellite Watches the Sun" explaining the uses of space weather instruments on the GOES satellites.
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GOES-15 Opens Its Infrared "Eyes" for First Image
04.27.10 - From approximately 22,236 miles in space, GOES-15 took its first full-disk infrared image of the Earth on April 26, 2010.
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GOES-13 is now GOES East
04.16.10 - The GOES-12 satellite is being moved to cover South America, so GOES-13 goes into service over the Eastern United States.
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GOES-15 Opens Its "Eyes" and Sees First Image of Earth
04.07.10 - The GOES-15 (formerly GOES-P satellite) Opens Its "Eyes" and Sees First Image of Earth.
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GOES-12 Observes Flooding in Northeastern U.S.
04.02.10 - A video showing 10 days of GOES-12 data shows the storms that dumped heavy rainfall on the Northeastern United States in the latter part of March.
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Flooding 'GOES' to the Movies Via Satellite
03.24.10 - The northeastern U.S. was subjected to heavy flooding and damage from late winter storms, and GOES-12 captured a movie of those storms as they dumped heavy rainfall between March 8 and 16, 2010.
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GOES Satellite Movie Captures Record-Setting February Blizzards in Washington
03.25.10 - During the first two weeks of February 2010, the GOES-12 weather satellite observed a record setting series of Nor'easter snow storms which blanketed the mid-Atlantic coast in two blizzards.
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NASA and NOAA's Environmental Satellite Now GOES-15
03.19.10 - Twelve days after a flawless launch, NASA and NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-P reached its proper orbit and was renamed GOES-15.
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NASA Sets Coverage for GOES-P Weather Satellite Launch on March 2
02.22.10 - The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-P, or GOES-P, is scheduled for launch aboard a Delta IV rocket on Tuesday, March 2, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
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NASA, NOAA Ready GOES-P Satellite For Launch
02.22.10 - The GOES-P satellite is now on the launchpad and will launch on March 2.
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GOES-P Set for Launch
02.04.10 - The GOES-P spacecraft was fueled on Jan. 30 and mated with the Delta IV that will put it in orbit.
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GOES-P Spacecraft Being Processed in Florida
01.15.10 - The GOES-P Spacecraft Being Processed in Florida, and this describes what is currently happening during launch preparations.
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GOES-10 Deactivated, GOES-12 Jumps In
12.30.09 - On December 2, NOAA officially deactivated its GOES-10 satellite after 12 years of service. By May 2010, the GOES-12 satellite will replace GOES-10, which was covering South America, and GOES-13 will take GOES-12's place over the eastern U.S.
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GOES- P Satellite Arrives At Kennedy
12.18.09 - GOES- P Satellite Arrives At Kennedy For Final Prelaunch Testing
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GOES-P Satellite Preparing for Launch in March 2010
10.16.09 - GOES-P is being prepared for an early March 2010 launch and if the launch schedule holds, it boasts an unprecedented two launches in approximately 8 months.
