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The satellite was built by Lockheed Martin, based on the A2100A platform, and expected to have a useful life of 15 years (10 years operational after five years of standby as an on-orbit replacement). GOES-17 is intended to deliver high-resolution visible and infrared imagery and lightning observations of more than half the globe.
Regime. Geostationary. Longitude. 140.7° East. Epoch. Planned. Himawari 9 is a Japanese weather satellite, the 9th of the Himawari geostationary weather satellite operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency. The spacecraft was constructed by Mitsubishi Electric, and is the second of two similar satellites to be based on the DS-2000 bus.
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It notes that viewing times are not 100% accurate and can vary by 10 minutes, as the satellite orbits may change. The site says the satellites are only visible for about four minutes. In the ...
Red visible satellite imagery loop of Typhoon Saola rapidly intensifying off the coast of Philippines on August 26, 2023. Maximum sustained winds of 195 km/h were estimated when the images were acquired. In mid-August, two tropical disturbances were formed on either side of the basin. The first disturbance was recognized east of Taiwan on ...
May 9, 2024 at 9:59 PM. Severe thunderstorms brought baseball-size hail to Central Texas on Thursday night. The National Weather Service warned of large hail and damaging winds, which were ...
Later that day, and into the next, the depression drifted due to weak surrounding steering currents, with its center moving in a small counterclockwise loop. [5] [6] The depression became Tropical Storm Idalia at 15:15 UTC on August 27, after a NOAA Hurricane Hunters flight reported that the storm's winds had increased to 40 mph (65 km/h). [7]
It was the first satellite to capture colour images from space and acted significantly as a medium of communications. [1] After the success of TIROS-1 and ATS-3, NASA in conjunction with United States Geological Survey (USGS), progressed forward in Earth observation through a series of Landsat satellites launched throughout the 1970s and 1980s.