Article title: Weather Satellite Now Offline: GOES-13 Issues May Affect Forecasting
URL:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/25/weather-satellite-offline-goes-13_n_1912953.html
Picture Source: http://abobora-oca.blogspot.com/2010/07/goes-13-is-americas-new-goes-east.html
Author of article: Andrew Freedman
"In the midst of the very active North Atlantic hurricane season, the
main weather satellite scientists use for keeping tabs on the weather
across eastern North America and the Atlantic Ocean has gone offline.
The outage began late on Sept. 23, after a period when the satellite,
known as GOES-13, had been experience increasing vibrations, or “noise,”
in particular instruments that was degrading its performance."
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