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https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/content/five-reasons-goes-s-will-be-game-changer-weather-forecasts-western-us

Five Reasons GOES-S will be a Game-Changer for Weather Forecasts in the Western U.S.

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Excitement is building for the launch of GOES-S. On March 1, 2018, NOAA's newest geostationary satellite will launch into space fr om Cape Canaveral, Florida. GOES-S (which will become GOES-17 once it reaches its final orbit) will significantly enhance weather forecasting capabilities across the western United States, Alaska, and Hawaii and provide critical data and imagery of the eastern and central Pacific Ocean extending all the way to New Zealand. Here are five reasons why GOES-S will be such a game-changer for weather forecasts fr om California to Alaska and beyond.


This graphic shows coverage of the Western Hemisphere by GOES-East and GOES-West. (NOAA)

1. Better, faster data means more reliable forecasts

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You may not realize it when you check your favorite weather website or smartphone app for a forecast in, say, San Francisco or Las Vegas, but weather forecasts in the western U.S. are overdue for an upgrade. A reliable forecast - whether it's for sunny skies, or a serious hazard such as flash floods or tropical cyclones - requires accurate and timely data, and that's where weather satellites like GOES-S come into play.

Our ability to see weather forming over the Pacific Ocean has been hampered by a lack of high-quality data. Data coverage is sparse over the northeastern Pacific, where many weather systems that affect the continental U.S. are born. The improved technology aboard GOES-S will provide valuable new data about upper level wind conditions. This data then gets fed into computer models used by forecasters at the National Weather Service.

Like GOES-16 (now NOAA's GOES East satellite), GOES-S will collect three times more data at four times better resolution, and scan the Earth five times faster than previous geostationary satellites over western North America, providing far more information to the models used to make those five-day forecasts we're so familiar with.

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2. Tracking Wildfires

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GOES-16 GeoColor and fire temperature RGB (red-green-blue) imagery of the wildfires raging in California on October 9, 2017. (Credit: CIRA)

The arid climate of the western United States makes the region especially vulnerable to wildfires. In 2017, several catastrophic wildfires in California burned more than one million acres of land across the state.

Thanks to high-resolution imagery from GOES-16, including red-green-blue thermal infrared imagery used to detect fire hot spots, forecasters at the National Weather Service were able to locate fires more quickly, and coordinate warnings with local emergency managers that helped save lives. In some cases, satellite imagery helped detect fires before 911 calls began to come in. GOES-S will provide a "second set of eyes" over the western U.S., and provide new wildfire monitoring capabilities wh ere it is currently lacking, especially in Alaska.

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3. Monitoring 'Atmospheric Rivers' and Pacific Tropical Cyclones

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If you live on the West Coast, you may have heard the term "atmospheric river" or the "pineapple express." Like rivers in the sky, these narrow conveyor belts of moisture transport huge amounts of water vapor from the subtropics to the west coast of the continental U.S. Strong atmospheric rivers can deliver enormous amounts of rain and high-elevation snow in California and the Pacific Northwest, especially during the winter months.


GOES-16 imagery of Hurricane Harvey making landfall in Texas on August 25, 2017. (NOAA)

Like GOES-16, which provided groundbreaking new data and imagery during the severe 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, GOES-S will bring this same new technology to the Pacific Ocean. This means forecasters will have new high-resolution imagery of atmospheric rivers, as well as Pacific hurricanes that track toward Hawaii or Mexico during the summer and autumn.

GOES-S will be equipped with an infrared channel that helps forecasters monitor cloud top temperatures, which are used to predict rainfall intensity and the potential for flash flooding or thunderstorms. The Advanced Baseline Imager on GOES-S will have three water vapor bands, two more than GOES-15, NOAA's current geostationary satellite over the Pacific. These additional channels will provide high resolution imagery of atmospheric water vapor, allowing forecasters to track the movement of major storms and pinpoint areas that will receive the heaviest precipitation.

GOES-S will also have the capability of collecting one-minute imagery over tropical cyclones, which can help forecasters better locate a storm's center of circulation. In addition, the satellite's Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) will provide forecasters with near real-time data on a storm's lightning activity, helping them identify the most convectively active portions of the storm.

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4. Fog Detection

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You don't have to live on the West Coast to know that coastal fog is a hallmark weather event in places like San Francisco and parts of the Pacific Northwest. Not only will GOES-S provide high-resolution, real-time imagery of fog conditions, but the satellite's rapid scanning capabilities will also help forecasters predict when fog will clear.

If you're a frequent flyer, you've probably run into a few travel headaches because fog or low stratus clouds grounded your flight.

Luckily, NOAA's GOES satellites can help mitigate flight delays. In March 2017, data and imagery from GOES-16 helped air traffic controllers at San Francisco International Airport lift a ground delay due to fog. Forecasters were able to use the satellite's high-resolution imagery to predict when the fog would start to erode, a decision that freed up 32 flights, prevented more than 20 hours of flight delays, and saved the airlines nearly $100,000. Fog monitoring from GOES-S will also improve forecasts used by the maritime sector, such the fishing and commercial shipping industries.

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5. Special mention: A major upgrade for Alaska

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Current geostationary satellite coverage of Alaska, such as this recent GOES-15 visible imagery, will be replaced by high-resolution imagery in 16 different channels. (NOAA)

GOES-S will boost weather prediction all across the western U.S., but the new satellite will be especially valuable to Alaska. That's because NOAA's current geostationary satellites lack sufficient resolution in regions near the Arctic. GOES-S, however, will provide a significantly clearer view of the Last Frontier - all the way to Alaska's North Slope, and allow for applications such as tracking sea ice.

This vast new coverage will revolutionize forecasting in Alaska. For example, thanks to combinable image channels on GOES-S (known as "multispectral imagery"), forecasters will be able to distinguish between clouds, snow-covered ground, and sea ice around Alaska's coasts. This will improve aviation and shipping forecasts, since current GOES visible satellite imagery can't easily differentiate clouds and snow - a particular challenge during Alaska's long, dark winter months.


Alaska's Pavlof Volcano erupting on March 16, 2016.
(Image credit: Nahshon Almandmoss/U.S. Coast Guard)

Like its sister satellite, GOES-16, GOES-S will be able to detect hazards often experienced in Alaska, such as wildfires and volcanic ash. Monitoring wildfires using satellite data and imagery will save property and lives, while volcanic ash detection will make air travel significantly safer in a state wh ere flying is the only mode of transport in many remote areas.

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/goes/2018/02/21/ula-atlas-v-rocket-noaas-goes-s-satellite-together-for-launch/

ULA Atlas V Rocket, NOAA's GOES-S Satellite Together for Launch

Anna Heiney
Posted Feb 21, 2018 at 12:42 pm


In a clean room at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Florida, technicians and engineers monitor progress as NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S, or GOES-S, is encapsulated in its payload fairing. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

With its March 1 launch date closing in, the next in a series of advanced geostationary weather satellites is in place for liftoff.

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The Centaur upper stage that will help launch NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S, or GOES-S, arrives at the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-S) will be delivered to orbit aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket fr om Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

With the Atlas V booster already in place, teams recently attached four solid rocket boosters and lifted the Centaur upper stage into place. Finally, the GOES-S satellite, secured inside the Atlas V payload fairing, moved from its processing location at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville to the launch complex, wh ere it was carefully raised into position atop the assembled rocket.

GOES-S is the second in NOAA's GOES-R series of satellites. All are designed to significantly improve the detection and observation of environmental phenomena that directly affect public safety, protection of property and the nation's economic health and prosperity.

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NASA_LSP‏Verified account @NASA_LSP 13h ago

Launch window open times in GMT for #GOESS change either not at all or by only a minute from day to day. On Sunday, March 11, Florida goes on Daylight Savings Times and so, for that day only, the local launch time would be an hour later than the previous day

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Расписание (предварительное) трансляций НАСА по освещению пусковой кампании GOES-S
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/schedule.html

Upcoming Events (All Times Eastern)

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• 1 p.m., Tuesday, February 27 - GOES-S Pre-Launch News Briefing from Kennedy Space Center (all channels)
  
  
• 2:30 p.m., Tuesday, February 27 - GOES-S Science Briefing from Kennedy Space Center (NTV-3 (Media))
  
  
• 4:30 p.m., Thursday, March 1 - GOES-S Launch Coverage - Kennedy Space Center (launch window opens at 5:02 p.m.) (all channels)
  

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Компания ULA опубликовала

Atlas V GOES-S Mission Overview - 2.6 MB, 2 стр

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NOAA Satellites‏Подлинная учетная запись @NOAASatellites 16 мин. назад

We are going LIVE with @NOAA @NASA TODAY @ 2 PM EST on Facebook! Get your Q's A'd about the #GOESS (#GOES17) satellite and what the future of forecasting will look like when High Definition GOES West! Click here to catch the LIVE experience http://bit.ly/2EJHrsV 

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NOAA Satellites‏Подлинная учетная запись @NOAASatellites 21 ч. назад

The payload fairing containing NOAA's #GOESS (#GOES17) is lowered by crane onto the @ULALaunch #AtlasV rocket in the Vertical Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral AFS. The fairing was secured to the rocket in preparation for launch on March 1. https://goo.gl/rQQNTc 

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The U.S. will soon have two of the most advanced weather satellites ever, operating in tandem. On Thursday, March 1, NASA will launch NOAA's newest weather satellite, GOES-S, the second of NOAA's new series of geostationary weather satellites. This dynamic duo will provide unprecedented coverage across the entire U.S. and most of the Western Hemisphere.

Join Jamese Sims of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Joel McCorkel of NASA to learn how GOES-S and the NOAA Satellite and Information Service will help forecasters predict and emergency officials plan for future extreme weather and natural disasters.

https://scontent-arn2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t42.9040-29/10000000_199158457345614_5478652569016336384_n.mp4?efg=eyJybHIiOjg3NiwicmxhIjo0MDk2LCJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6InNkIn0%3D&rl=876&vabr=487&oh=13ec9be832d1a52ddfc5bfb0f2a63997&oe=5A9095FC (27:15)
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Tory Bruno‏Подлинная учетная запись @torybruno 8 ч. назад

Flight Readiness Review complete. On track. #GOES

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https://www.ulalaunch.com/missions/missions-details/2018/02/08/atlas-v-to-launch-goes-s

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• Launch Date: Thursday, March 1, 2018
• Launch Time: The 2-hour launch window opens at 5:02 p.m. EST
• Live Broadcast: Tune in live on March 1 beginning at 4:30 p.m. EST
  

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The payload fairing containing NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S) is mated to the ULA Atlas V rocket Feb. 16, 2018, inside the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41. Photo credit: NASA/Glenn Benson

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NASA_LSP‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA_LSP 8 ч. назад

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https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-television-coverage-set-for-weather-satellite-science-briefing-launch

Feb. 20, 2018
MEDIA ADVISORY M18-035

NASA Television Coverage Set for Weather Satellite Science Briefing, Launch


The launch of NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S) is scheduled for March 1 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. NASA oversees the acquisition of the spacecraft, instruments and launch vehicles for the GOES-R Series program.
Credits: Lockheed Martin

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) newest weather satellite, Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S), is scheduled to launch Thursday, March 1. The launch, as well as prelaunch and science briefings on Tuesday, Feb. 27, will air live on NASA Television and the agency's website.

At 5:02 p.m. March 1, a two-hour launch window will open, during which GOES-S will launch on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in Florida. Launch coverage will begin at 4:30 p.m.

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GOES-S is the second in the GOES-R Series of weather satellites that includes GOES-R (now GOES-16), -S, -T and -U. The satellite will be renamed GOES-17 when it reaches geostationary orbit. Once the satellite is declared operational, late this year, it will occupy NOAA's GOES-West position and provide faster, more accurate data for tracking wildfires, tropical cyclones, fog and other storm systems and hazards that threaten the western United States, including Hawaii and Alaska, Mexico, Central America and the Pacific Ocean, all the way to New Zealand.

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Prelaunch and Science Briefings

NASA TV will air two GOES-S news briefings on Feb. 27 from the Press Site at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The prelaunch news conference will be held at 1 p.m. Participants will be:

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• Stephen Volz, director for satellite and information services at NOAA
• Tim Walsh, acting GOES-R system program director at NOAA
• Sandra Smalley, director of NASA's Joint Agency Satellite Division
• Tim Dunn, launch director at Kennedy
• Scott Messer, flight director at United Launch Alliance
• Clay Flinn, launch weather officer for the 45th Weather Squadron at CCAFS
  

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The prelaunch news conference will be followed at 2:30 p.m. by a science briefing. Participants will be:

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• Dan Lindsey, GOES-R senior scientific advisor at NOAA
• Louis Uccellini, director of the National Weather Service at NOAA
• George Morrow, deputy director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
• Jim Roberts, scientist with the Earth System Research Laboratory of NOAA's Office of Atmospheric Research
• Kristin Calhoun, research scientist with NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory
  

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Media can ask questions during the briefings via Twitter, using the hashtag #askNASA.

There is no planned post-launch news conference.

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Last Updated: Feb. 20, 2018
Editor: Karen Northon

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Запланирована видеотрансляция НАСА вывоза РН с КА GOES-S (время EST)

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/schedule.html

10 a.m., Wednesday, February 28 - NASA Edge Coverage of the GOES-S Rollout (NTV-1 (Public))

2018-02-28 15:00 UTC

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Прогноз погоды L-4

Atlas V AV-077 L-4 Launch Forecast

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/02/26/photos-atlas-5-rocket-and-goes-s-weather-satellite-assembled-for-launch/

Photos: Atlas 5 rocket and GOES-S weather satellite assembled for launch
February 26, 2018 Stephen Clark

Technicians around Cape Canaveral spent the last four weeks assembling a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket and preparing a Lockheed Martin-built NOAA weather satellite for liftoff March 1.

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The photos on this page show the Atlas 5's first stage, powered by a Russian-made RD-180 engine, being lifted atop a mobile platform inside ULA's Vertical Integration Facility at the Florida spaceport Jan. 31. Four strap-on Aerojet Rocketdyne solid rocket boosters were later added, along with the Atlas 5's hydrogen-fueled Centaur upper stage.

In parallel with the rocket preparations, a team of engineers and technicians at the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville tested and fueled the GOES-S weather satellite set for launch on the Atlas 5. Ground crews then installed the GOES-S spacecraft on a payload attach fitting, then encapsulated the satellite inside the Atlas 5's Swiss-made payload fairing.

Teams then transported the GOES-S weather satellite and its payload shroud fr om the Astrotech facility to the Vertical Integration Facility, wh ere they were hoisted atop the Atlas 5 on Feb. 16.

The Atlas 5 rocket is set for launch Thursday, March 1, during a two-hour window opening at 5:02 p.m. EST (2202 GMT).

The Atlas 5 rocket will fly in the "541" configuration with four solid rocket boosters and a five-meter (17-foot) diameter fairing. The Atlas 5-541 version has flown five times before, including three missions for the National Reconnaissance Office, one with NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, and another with the GOES-R weather observatory, a predecessor to the GOES-S satellite launching this week.

The GOES-S satellite, to be renamed GOES-17 once in orbit, will be stationed more than 22,000 miles (nearly 36,000 kilometers) over Earth's equator. Its coverage zone will include the western United States, Alaska, Hawaii and the Pacific Ocean.

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