NOAA’s GOES-U will be the fourth and final satellite in the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) – R Series, the Western Hemisphere’s most sophisticated weather-observing and environmental monitoring system. The GOES-R Series provides advanced imagery and atmospheric measurements, real-time mapping of lightning activity, and space weather observations. GOES-U will continue the revolutionary improvements brought by GOES-R, S, and T, as well as additional solar-imaging capabilities with the inclusion of the Compact Coronagraph (CCOR) instrument. Known as CCOR-1, the Compact Coronagraph instrument will fly on GOES-U as part of NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On (SWFO) mission. GOES-U is scheduled to launch from NASA Kennedy Space Center on June 25, 2024.
Panelists include:
• Erin McKinley, GEO Senior Outreach Manager (moderator)
• Jim Valenti, Assistant Director, Office of Geostationary Earth Orbit Observations
• Brian Hall, Deputy Director, Office of Geostationary Earth Orbit Observations
• Kevin Fryar, Chief of Staff, Office of Geostationary Earth Orbit Observations/meteorologist
• Tim Babich, Deputy Project Manager, Compact Coronagraph Instrument (CCOR-1)
For more information about the mission and launch, please visit the GOES-U website: [ Ссылка ]
Presented by NASA Goddard's Office of Communications. Produced by Dustin Barringer and Travis Wohlrab, NASA/GSFC. Recorded live on June 12, 2024 from 1pm – 2pm ET at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.
