Tag: Advanced Baseline Imager
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NOAA’s new GOES-17 weather satellite has degraded vision at night
Artist’s illustration of the GOES-17 satellite in space. Credit: Lockheed Martin Engineers are studying a malfunction with the main imaging instrument on NOAA’s GOES-17 weather satellite, launched March 1, that could limit the observatory’s ability to monitor storms, winds and other weather phenomena at night, officials said Wednesday. A cooling system aboard the satellite is…
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New U.S. weather satellite with improved camera sends back first images
This full-disk image over the Americas was captured by GOES-16’s Advanced Baseline Imager at 1807 GMT (1:07 p.m. EDT) on Jan. 15. Credit: NOAA A new-generation weather satellite launched in November promising to deliver better images of hurricanes, storms and clouds than any mission before has returned its first tantalizing pictures from geostationary orbit. NOAA…
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Forecasters worldwide brace for ‘data deluge’ from new weather satellites
Typhoon Megi churns near Taiwan in this Sept. 26 image from the Advanced Himawari Imager aboard Japan’s Himawari 9 weather satellite. Credit: JMA High-tech cameras made in Indiana will soon be scanning across Asia, Australia, the Americas and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to give weather forecasters an unrivaled minute-by-minute glimpse of the development and…