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Sharper eye in the sky: The new GOES-U weather satellite is a forecast game-changer
The GOES-U weather satellite was set to launch on June 25, and it's going to make a big difference in how we cover weather and keep people safe from extreme weather events.
The images it will capture will be four times sharper than the previous generation of GOES satellite, and the data and detail we will get from the new GOES-U will help improve our forecasts and keep people safer in a time of increasingly extreme weather. It will also play a key role in monitoring solar storms and space-weather hazards.
GOES is short for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, and will orbit the…
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