Cooling failure threatens NOAA’s newest weather satellite

Cooling failure threatens NOAA’s newest weather satellite

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http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/cooling-failure-threatens-noaa-s-newest-weather-satellite

A cooling problem on GOES-17, NOAA’s newest weather satellite, is imperiling the agency’s future weather forecasts.

A balky cooling system in the chill of space is throwing the future of the United States’s most recent multibillion-dollar weather satellite, the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-17 (GOES-17), in doubt, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported today. Technicians are now scrambling to understand the problem, which first arose several weeks ago on the satellite’s primary instrument.

Cooling failure threatens NOAA’s newest weather satellite

May 23, 2018, 9:41pm UTC
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/cooling-failure-threatens-noaa-s-newest-weather-satellite > A cooling problem on GOES-17, NOAA’s newest weather satellite, is imperiling the agency’s future weather forecasts. > A balky cooling system in the chill of space is throwing the future of the United States’s most recent multibillion-dollar weather satellite, the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-17 (GOES-17), in doubt, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported today. Technicians are now scrambling to understand the problem, which first arose several weeks ago on the satellite’s primary instrument.