Atlas wynosi satelitę meteorologicznego 01.03. o 22:02 z Cape Canaveral wystrzelona została RN Atlas-5/541, która wyniosła w T+3h 29' 42" na orbitę
o parametrach: hp=8196 km, ha=35291 km, i=9,54° satelitę meteorologicznego GOES-S.
Udany start Atlasa 5 z satelitą meteorologicznym (01.03.2018) BY MICHAŁ MOROZ ON 2 MARCA 2018
Satelita GOES-S podczas przygotowań do lotu / NASA/Leif HeimboldPierwszego marca z Cape Canaveral wystartowała rakieta Atlas 5/541 z satelitą GOES-S.
Kampanie startową przeprowadziła spółka joint venture United Launch Alliance na którą składają się Boeing oraz Lockheed Martin. Był to 126 udany start spółki od czasu jej powołania w 2006 roku.
Moment startu Atlasa 5 z satelitą GOES-SRakieta wystartowała z platformy startowej numer 41. Satelita został wypuszczony na orbitę transferową ku geostacjonarnej o parametrach 8196 x 35291 km oraz inklinacji 9,54 stopnia. GOES-S (zwany również GOES-17) będzie pracował w tandemie z satelitą GOES-R. Docelowo umiejscowiony będzie nad 135 stopniem długości wschodniej.
Satelita waży 5192 kg (wraz z paliwem) i został zbudowany przez Lockheed Martin. Operatorem satelity będzie agencja NOAA. Ma on pracować przez 15 lat, przy czym pierwsze 5 ma funkcjonować jako satelita rezerwowy
Nagranie startu Atlasa 5 z satelitą GOES-S / SciNews
Był to 22 udany start rakiety w 2018 roku.
(LK, GSP)
http://kosmonauta.net/2018/03/udany-start-atlasa-5-z-satelita-meteorologicznym-01-03-2018/#prettyPhotoAtlas 5/GOES-S launch timelineFebruary 28, 2018 Stephen Clark
T+3:32:31.3: GOES-S Separation
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S, GOES-S, spacecraft deploys from the Centaur upper stage to begin its 15-year weather monitoring mission.https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/02/28/atlas-5-goes-s-launch-timeline/Photos: Atlas 5 rocket and GOES-S weather satellite assembled for launchFebruary 26, 2018 Stephen Clark
Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelskyhttps://spaceflightnow.com/2018/02/26/photos-atlas-5-rocket-and-goes-s-weather-satellite-assembled-for-launch/Second of NOAA’s “high-definition” weather satellites ready for launchFebruary 28, 2018 Stephen Clark
Artist’s concept of the GOES-S satellite in orbit. Credit: Lockheed Martin(...) The GOES satellites, launched in series since 1975, are the “backbone of weather and climate forecasts,” said Stephen Volz, director of NOAA’s satellite and information services.
Imagery from the GOES satellites are featured in weather broadcasts and used as a primary forecasting tool by meteorologists across the Western Hemisphere, helping track tropical cyclones and tornado-spawning severe storms, plus monitoring for snow and ice cover, wildfires and fog that threaten transportation and property.
The newest family of GOES satellites, beginning with GOES-16 launched in 2016, offer a “quantum leap” in capability over NOAA’s earlier generations of geostationary weather observatories, Volz said in a briefing with reporters Tuesday.
The Advanced Baseline Imager on the latest four GOES satellites can return scans of an entire hemisphere once every 15 minutes, half the time needed by one of NOAA’s earlier geostationary spacecraft. The imager can scan the continental United States once every 5 minutes.
The new ABI-equipped satellites can return pictures of hotspots like hurricanes at a cadence of once every 30 seconds, an improvement from the five-minute rapid scans available today. (...)
https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/02/28/second-of-noaas-high-definition-weather-satellites-ready-for-launch/Photos: Atlas 5 treks from hangar to launch pad with GOES-S weather satelliteMarch 1, 2018 Stephen Clark
Credit: United Launch Alliancehttps://spaceflightnow.com/2018/03/01/photos-atlas-5-treks-from-hangar-to-launch-pad-with-goes-s-weather-satellite/GOES-S weather observatory hoisted atop Atlas 5 rocketFebruary 16, 2018 Stephen Clark
NOAA’s GOES-S weather satellite. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett(...) “GOES-16, even beyond its spectacular imagery, is already proving to be a game-changer with much more refined, higher quality data for faster and more accurate weather forecasts and warnings,” Mehta said in a conference call with reporters earlier this month. “This means more lives are saved and better environmental intelligence for state and local officials, who, for example, may need to make decisions about when to call for evacuations ahead of life-threatening wildfires.”
https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/02/16/goes-s-weather-observatory-hoisted-atop-atlas-5-rocket/ULA Atlas V launches with GOES-Swritten by William Graham March 1, 2018
(...) GOES-S is the second of four satellites making up the fifth generation of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) program, a series of spacecraft that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) uses to provide continuous monitoring of weather conditions in the United States and across the western hemisphere. At any time, the GOES constellation consists of two operational satellites in geostationary orbit, plus a number of spares. (...)
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/03/ula-atlas-goes-s-launch/Atlas V to Add Second Next-Generation Satellite to U.S. GOES Weather Constellation February 28, 2018
(...) Standing six meters tall and weighing in at 5,192 Kilograms at liftoff, GOES-S leverages Lockheed Martin’s flight-proven A2100 satellite platform and employs six state-of-the-art instruments to collect multi-band imagery of weather systems, take atmospheric sounding measurements, monitor lightning events with unprecedented accuracy & frequency, and watch over solar events and space weather with a high-energy instrument suite. (...)
http://spaceflight101.com/goes-r/atlas-v-goes-s-launch-preview/#wWvJSpriIfTiPrPh.99http://spaceflight101.com/goes-r/goes-r-instruments/https://blogs.nasa.gov/goes/2018/02/27/goes-s-prelaunch-briefings-today/https://blogs.nasa.gov/goes/2018/01/16/noaas-goes-s-spacecraft-prepared-for-encapsulation/https://blogs.nasa.gov/goes/2018/01/26/atlas-v-booster-centaur-arrive-for-goes-s/https://blogs.nasa.gov/goes/2018/01/29/centaur-upper-stage-arrives-at-delta-operations-center/GOES R, S, T, U