{"id":18507,"date":"2018-05-23T21:24:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T13:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/next-generation-goes-17-weather-satellite-encounters-infrared-imaging-glitch-in-orbit\/"},"modified":"2018-05-23T21:24:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T13:24:47","slug":"next-generation-goes-17-weather-satellite-encounters-infrared-imaging-glitch-in-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/next-generation-goes-17-weather-satellite-encounters-infrared-imaging-glitch-in-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Next-generation GOES-17 weather satellite encounters infrared imaging glitch in orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_421981\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-421981\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-421981\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/180523-goes-630x500.jpg\" alt=\"GOES-R series satellite\" width=\"630\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/180523-goes-630x500.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/180523-goes-768x610.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/180523-goes.jpg 865w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-421981\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An artist\u2019s conception shows a GOES-R series satellite. (NASA Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two months after its launch, the main imaging instrument on a next-generation weather satellite is experiencing problems with its cooling system.<\/p>\n<p>That, in turn, is hurting the Advanced Baseline Imager\u2019s ability to capture infrared and near-infrared images for the GOES-17 satellite, which is supposed to take over the task of monitoring weather systems over the Pacific Ocean and the western U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Managers say the issue is being investigated by NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the imager\u2019s contractor team, led by Harris Corp.<\/p>\n<p>The problem has to do with the plumbing for the system that keeps the imager\u2019s infrared detectors sufficiently chilled. Stephen Volz, NOAA\u2019s assistant administrator for satellite and information services, told reporters that the glitch is a \u201cserious problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_421982\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-421982\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-421982\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/180523-abi-630x427.jpg\" alt=\"Advanced Baseline Imager\" width=\"630\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/180523-abi-630x427.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/180523-abi.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-421982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker examines the Advanced Baseline Imager for the GOES-R satellite. (ITT Exelis Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis is the premier Earth-pointing instrument on the GOES platform, and 16 channels, of which 13 are infrared or near-infrared, are important elements of our observing requirements, and if they are not functioning fully, it is a loss,\u201d he said during a teleconference. \u201cIt is a performance issue we have to address.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Volz said the anomaly was detected three weeks ago during the checkout process for the satellite.<\/p>\n<p>The visible-wavelength channels are working, but the infrared and near-infrared channels are unable to produce usable data for about half of the day, centered around satellite local midnight, said Tim Walsh, NOAA program manager for the GOES-R series. (GOES stands for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite.)<\/p>\n<p>Volz said the other instruments on the satellite, including four space-weather instruments and a lightning mapper, are \u201cchecking out fine.\u201d NOAA released the first imagery from the Geostationary Lightning Mapper on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"NOAA GOES-17 Satellite Shares 'First Light' Imagery\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QFTrwqhEaKE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.75\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"600\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 600px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Volz also stressed that the GOES satellites that NOAA is currently using for weather imagery, GOES-East and GOES-West, are working fine as well. There\u2019s also a fully functioning on-orbit spare, GOES-14.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no impact to the performance of the system,\u201d Volz said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the investigation team was \u201clooking at several options to correct the problem.\u201d If the problem can\u2019t be fixed, there\u2019d have to be revisions to the satellite operation plan. The current plan calls for GOES-17 to take over the GOES-West observational duties by the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Like GOES-East, GOES-17 was designed with enhanced capabilities to help NOAA\u2019s National Weather Service monitor storms, wildfires, fog conditions and other atmospheric phenomena in near real-time.<\/p>\n<p>Two more satellites in the next-generation GOES-R series, currently known as GOES-T and GOES-U, are to be launched in 2020 and 2024. Total price tag for the satellite upgrade program is $10.8 billion, which includes development, launch and operations through 2036.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on the results of the investigation, the launch dates for those future satellites may be revised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artist\u2019s conception shows a GOES-R series satellite. (NASA Photo) Two months after its launch, the main imaging instrument on a next-generation weather satellite is experiencing problems with its cooling system. That, in turn, is hurting the Advanced Baseline Imager\u2019s ability to capture infrared and near-infrared images for the GOES-17 satellite, which is supposed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2960,975,20,650],"class_list":["post-18507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-goes","tag-noaa","tag-satellite","tag-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}