New from NOAA: NOAA retires NOAA-16 polar satellite After more - TopicsExpress



          

New from NOAA: NOAA retires NOAA-16 polar satellite After more than 13 years of helping predict weather and climate patterns and save lives in search and rescue operations, NOAA announced today it has turned off the NOAA-16 Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellite (POES). It was one of NOAAs longest operating spacecraft, which have a planned lifespan of three to five years. NOAA-16 was launched in 2000 and replaced by NOAA-18 as the primary POES satellite in 2005. FULL STORY: noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2014/20140609_goes16.html
Posted on: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 20:57:22 +0000

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