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The GOES-S weather satellite is scheduled for launch next Thursday for insertion into geosynchronous orbit over the eastern Pacific region, providing imagery of weather patterns that will affect Hawaii. It's resolution is far greater than the satellite it replaces, and will offer meteorologists greater detail for use in their forecasts, including hurricane forecasts:
its instruments capture three times as many spectral channels at four times the resolution five times as fast as GOES West, the satellite it’s slated to replace.
https://earther.com/why-nerds-are-excite...1823239274
Let's hope the launch is a success, and we can soon look forward to greater accuracy in our weather forecasts.
“I like being able to measure winds in Pacific and to put them in long-term weather models to give us guidance 3-7 days ahead,” Yoe said about one of his favorite GOES-S meteorology advances.
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Additional details on what the new GOES-S weather satellite will do for Hawaii:
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
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 ... 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.
https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/content/five...western-us
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Mahalo for the great news HTOPE. Wishing the project great success.
It always amazes me when I’m on the mainland and the weather reports are so accurate when ours here is so bad. I hope we see an improvement.
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Great news. Hopefully, the weather reports will be a little more accurate. ;-)
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The weather for tomorrow looks good to go for launch of the new GOES-S satellite. Here's NASA's web page for all the updates, with links to pre-launch interviews and tomorrow's countdown if you want to watch. The live feed starts about 11:30 AM HST (Thursday, March 1), with liftoff expected sometime after 12 noon HST:
https://blogs.nasa.gov/goes/
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GOES-16 watches the launch of its replacement...
https://twitter.com/NWSHonolulu/status/9...46592?s=04
My Dad was on the team that built the original GOES satellites back in the '70s.
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Amazing, thank you. That thing was moving!
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Thanks rocketman, as TomK said, that's some serious acceleration after liftoff. Here's another look, a little more slow-mo but good detail of the first stage burn, separation, and second stage ignition:
https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/03/01/vi...satellite/
So far so good. Now let's park this thing, and fire up the cameras. Can't wait to see the first images, and hear the initial feedback from our central Pacific NOAA forecasters.
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