GOES: World’s most advanced weather satellite
Q. Most advanced weather satellite called GOES has been built. What does it stand for?- Published on 21 Nov 16a. Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
b. Geostationary Operational Ecological Satellite
c. Geostationary Operational Evolutionary Satellite
d. Geostationary Operational Satellite
ANSWER: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
The most advanced weather satellite ever built rocketed into space on 19
th Nov as part of the USD 11 billion effort to revolutionise forecasting and save lives
- The new GOES-R spacecraft will track US weather including hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding, volcanic ash clouds, wildfires, lightning storms, even solar flares.
- The satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral at Florida and represents a quantum leap in NOAA satellites
- Faster, more accurate weather forecasts and warnings will result in more lives saved and better environmental intelligence
- Airline passengers will benefit as will rocket launch teams
- Improved forecasting will avoid bad weather for fliers
- This is the first in the series of four high tech satellites
- GOES-R was on unarmed Atlas V rocket
- NOAA teamed up with NASA for this mission
- Satellite is valued by NOAA at USD 1 billion and aims for a 22,3000 mile high equatorial orbit
- It will join three spacecraft with 40 year technology and known as GOES-16
- The second satellite in the series will follow in 2018
- All together the series should stretch to 2036
- GOES stands for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite.
- The first one was launched in 1975.
- The premier imager of GOES-R will offer three times as many channels as existing systems, four times the resolution and five times the scan speed
- It will churn out full images of the Western Hemisphere every 15 minutes and continental US every 5 minutes
