GOES-U
GOES-U is a planned weather satellite, the fourth and last of the GOES-R series of satellites operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The GOES-R series will extend the availability of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) system until 2036. The satellite will be built by Lockheed Martin, based on the A2100 platform.[1]
Names | Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-U |
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Mission type | Earth weather forecasting |
Operator | NOAA / NASA |
Mission duration | 15 years (planned) |
Spacecraft properties | |
Bus | A2100 |
Manufacturer | Lockheed Martin |
Launch mass | 2800 kg |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 2024 (planned) |
Launch site | Cape Canaveral |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric orbit |
Regime | Geostationary orbit |
Launch
The satellite is expected to be launched into space sometime in 2024 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, United States.[2][3] The redesign of the loop heat pipe to prevent an anomaly, as seen in GOES-17, is not expected to delay the launch as it did with GOES-T.[4]
GOES-U will also carry a copy of the Naval Research Laboratory's Compact CORonagraph (CCOR) instrument which, along with the CCOR planned for Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1), will allow continued monitoring of solar wind after the retirement of the NASA-ESA European Space Agency SOHO satellite in 2025.[5][6]
It will have a mass of 2,800 kg (6,200 lb).[7]
References
- Mission overview; GOES-R Retrieved 28 November 2016
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- Our Satellites NOAA, Retrieved 5 March 2017
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- Oswald, Ed (22 November 2016). "Launch of GOES-R satellite a game-changing moment for weather forecasting". Digital Trends. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
- "Lockheed Martin halts work on GOES-T to wait for instrument fix". SpaceNews.com. 9 January 2019. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
- Vargas, Marco (7 January 2019). "The NOAA Space Weather Follow-On Program to Ensure Continuity of CME Imagery and Solar Wind Space-Based Observations". American Meteorilogical Society 99th Annual Meeting. AMS. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
- "Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1". nesdis.noaa.gov. NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS). Retrieved 24 March 2020.
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- Ray, Justin (22 August 2016). "Sophisticated new U.S. weather observatory being readied for launch". Spaceflight Now. Retrieved 19 October 2016.