Narrator: NOAA is preparing for a satellite launch in 2024.
GOES-U will be the fourth and final satellite in NOAA’s latest generation
of geostationary operational environmental satellites
called the GOES-R Series.
GOES-U, which will be renamed GOES-19 when it reaches orbit,
will continue GOES East’s legacy of keeping watch over the contiguous
United States, Central and South America, and the Atlantic Ocean.
Like the three other GOES-R Series satellites already in orbit,
GOES-U will provide near real-time, high-resolution imagery that will
deliver critical information for weather forecasts, severe weather prediction,
lightning detection, space weather
and tropical cyclones spinning in the Atlantic basin.
GOES-U will carry something new when it launches.
A critical space weather instrument called the Compact Coronagraph-1,
or CCOR-1.
GOES-U will continue NOAA’s legacy to help scientists and forecasters
understand, monitor and predict our changing environment.
From the oceans...
to outer space.