(SPACE.com) A leading continue heavenly body monitoring the U.S. East Coast has close down, call officials to trigger a free heavenly body to take its place.
The GOES-13 heavenly body unsuccessful after days of haphazard behavior, officials with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials mentioned Monday (Sept. 24). The replacement, GOES-14, has already started gnawing cinema of Earth from space to guard the U.S. eastern coastline along with the continental U.S. and Atlantic basin, they added.
"GOES-14 will sojourn the first GOES heavenly body over the Atlantic dish and Continental U.S. until the imager and sounder information problems on GOES-13 may be entirely diagnosed and hopefully fixed," NOAA officials mentioned in the Monday statement.
The GOES-13 satellite, that is moreover well known as GOES East, launched in to space in 2006 and was accountable for tracking continue systems opposite the eastern United States whilst other GOES heavenly body monitored the country's horse opera regions, according to NASA records. GOES-14 launched in 2009 and was placed in a storage circuit to offer as an in-space spare.
"NOAA maintains backup GOES satellites in box variable events occur, providing full excess for monitoring serious continue over the U.S. and its territories," NOAA officials said. GOES-14 will offer as GOES East until the GOES-13 satellite's faulty may be repaired.
GOES stands for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite. Thesatellites circuit the Earth in geostationary orbits, that enable them to every time look down on the same segment of Earth from a stretch of 22,300 miles (35,888 kilometers). The first GOES heavenly body launched in 1974.
GOES-13 and its after that counterparts are segment of a newer era of GOES continue satellites. In add-on to tracking continue systems, the satellites are moreover used to send upset signals from crisis beacons and can guard solar wake up during object storms, NASA officials have said.
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