{"id":75940,"date":"2014-10-17T19:27:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T11:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/lockheed-martin-finishes-first-geostationary-lightning-mapper-for-goes-r-satellite\/"},"modified":"2014-10-17T19:27:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T11:27:04","slug":"lockheed-martin-finishes-first-geostationary-lightning-mapper-for-goes-r-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/lockheed-martin-finishes-first-geostationary-lightning-mapper-for-goes-r-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin Finishes First Geostationary Lightning Mapper for GOES R Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 10-17-2014] <b>Lockheed Martin <\/b>has transferred the first Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) instrument to its Denver Colo. facility for integration into the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R (GOES R) series.<\/p>\n<p>The GLM leverages technology originally designed for the Lightning Imaging Sensor used on <b>NASA<\/b>\u2018s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission. The device has a 1.8-megapixel focal plane and can capture images at 500 frames per second. It also includes noise electronics and specialized optics for pinpointing weak lightning signals in difficult observing conditions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA rapid increase of in-cloud lightning can precede severe weather on the ground. Changes in that type of lightning can also give us a better understanding of the updraft strength in thunderstorms,\u201d said Russell Katz, GLM deputy program manager at Lockheed Martin.<\/p>\n<p>The first GOES R satellite is slated to launch in early 2016 for the <b>National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration <\/b>(NOAA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 10-17-2014] Lockheed Martin has transferred the first Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) instrument to its Denver Colo. facility for integration into the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R (GOES R) series. The GLM leverages technology originally designed for the Lightning Imaging Sensor used on NASA\u2018s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission. The device has a 1.8-megapixel focal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75941,"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":[],"class_list":["post-75940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75940"}],"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=75940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}