America's newest weather satellite has blasted off on a mission to improve wildfire and flood forecasting in the West
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — — America’s newest weather satellite blasted off Tuesday to improve wildfire and flood forecasting across the western half of the country.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the new model is redesigned to avoid the problem. It will be designated GOES-18 after reaching an equatorial orbit 22,000 miles up. The first images should come next year, following months of testing. The NASA-supported GOES satellites “provide the only continuous coverage of weather and hazardous environmental conditions in the Western Hemisphere,” said NOAA program director Pam Sullivan."These observations are even more critical now in a time when the U.S. is experiencing a record number of billion-dollar disasters."
Besides observing conditions here on Earth, the satellites also monitor solar flares and the resulting space weather.
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