NASA launches next-generation GOES-T satellite to track hazardous weather in western United States

NASA launches next-generation GOES-T satellite to track hazardous weather in western United States

• The US space agency, NASA, successfully launched the third in a series of four next-generation weather satellites, Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES), from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida on March 01, 2022.
• The satellite is named as GOES-T.  Once the satellite gets positioned in its geostationary orbit it will be renamed from GOES-T to GOES-18.
• GOES-T will be used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to forecast weather and hazardous environmental conditions in the Western Hemisphere.

Points to remember:

1. GOES full form?
2. Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) is a next generation weather satellite by which country?
3. NOAA headquarter – Washington, D.C., United States

Source: Business Standard