Acting Back-Up Temporarily Substituted For NOAA’s GOES-13 Weather Satellite
Image Caption: Artist’s conception of the GOES-13 satellite. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite known as GOES-13 became the official GOES-EAST satellite on April 14, 2010. GOES-13 was moved from on-orbit storage and…
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Weather Satellite Set To Blast Into Space
Image Caption: MetOp sat. Credit: ESA/Eumetsat Later this month, Europe’s newest meteorology satellite, MetOp-B, will blast into space from Baikonur Cosmodrome. For mission control teams at ESA, liftoff marks the start of 72…
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