Friday, September 28, 2012

Key US East Coast Weather Satellite GOES-13 Fails


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A major weather satellite monitoring the U.S. East Coast has shut down, prompting officials to activate a spare satellite to take its place.
The GOES-13 satellite failed after days of erratic behavior, officials with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials said Monday (Sept. 24). The replacement, GOES-14, has already begun snapping pictures of Earth from space to monitor the U.S. eastern coast along with the continental U.S. and Atlantic basin, they added.


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