GOES-U

GOES-U is a planned weather satellite, the fourth and last of the GOES-R series of satellites operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The GOES-R series will extend the availability of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) system until 2036. The satellite will be built by Lockheed Martin, based on the A2100 platform.[1]

GOES-U
Mission typeEarth weather forecasting
OperatorNOAA / NASA
Mission duration15 years (planned)
Spacecraft properties
BusA2100
ManufacturerLockheed Martin
Launch mass2,800 kilograms (6,200 lb)
Start of mission
Launch date2024 (2024) (planned)
Launch siteCape Canaveral Air Force Station
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric
RegimeGeostationary
 

Launch

The satellite is expected to be launched into space sometime in 2024 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, United States.[2][3] The redesign of the loop heat pipe to prevent an anomaly, as seen in GOES-17, is not expected to delay the launch as it did with GOES-T.[4]

GOES-U will also carry a copy of the Naval Research Laboratory's Compact CORonagraph (CCOR) instrument which, along with the CCOR planned for SWFO-L1, will allow continued monitoring of solar wind after the retirement of the NASA-European Space Agency SOHO satellite in 2025.[5][6]

It will have a mass of 2,800 kg.[7]

References
  1. Mission overview; GOES-R. Retrieved 2016-11-28.
  2. Our Satellites NOAA, Retrieved March 5, 2017.
  3. "Lockheed Martin halts work on GOES-T to wait for instrument fix". SpaceNews.com. 2019-01-09. Retrieved 2019-05-26.
  4. Vargas, Marco (7 January 2019). "The NOAA Space Weather Follow-On Program to Ensure Continuity of CME Imagery and Solar Wind Space-Based Observations". American Meteorilogical Society 99th Annual Meeting. AMS. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  5. "Space Weather Follow-On". Office of Projects, Planning, and Analysis. NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS). Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  6. Ray, Justin (22 August 2016). "Sophisticated new U.S. weather observatory being readied for launch". Spaceflight Now. Retrieved 19 October 2016.



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