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3 February 9, 2022 A g r iNceuwt sl u r e NASA, NOAA to get new weather More US troops arrive in Poland as eyes in the sky with March launch NATO reinforces its from Cape Canaveral eastern flank BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — More U.S. troops landed in Poland Joe Mario Pedersen, Or- edented amount wildfires in nadoes and damaging winds. GOES-T is set to launch lando Sentinel the northwest U.S. with thou- Juggling even more than 4:38 p.m. ET March 1 from Ca- on Sunday afternoon as part of the reinforcement of NATO mili- sands of acres burnt. Both Ger- terrestrial weather, GOES-T naveral’s Space Launch Com- tary positions in Europe announced by Washington earlier this ORLANDO, Fla. — Soon, many and China experienced will have a hand in monitoring plex 41. Once it is in position, week. weather scientists will have an historic flooding, and the space weather, too. Keeping an GOES-T will take on the name News channel TVN24 showed footage of the latest arrivals at even stronger pair of eyes in Atlantic observed 21 named eye on solar storms that could GOES-18 and replace GOES- the Rzeszów–Jasionka airport in south-eastern Poland. The first the sky once a new advanced tropical systems — the third potentially harm Earth’s power 17 and will monitor the west- additional U.S. soldiers arrived at the airport on Saturday. weather satellite launches this highest amount behind 2020s grids. The satellite is equipped ern part of the United States March. 30 named storms and 2005s with space weather tools like a as well as Alaska and Hawaii, Polish Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak welcomed the ar- The GOES-T, short for Geo- 27 total. particle flux sensor, solar irra- according to the NOAA. rival of the allies, saying that deterrence and solidarity were the stationary Operational Envi- GOES-T should be able to diance monitor and a magne- GOES-17 is being replaced best response to the aggressive policy being pursued by Moscow ronmental Satellite, is aiming help meteorologists determine tometer, Sullivan said. after it experienced some ABI over Ukraine. for liftoff March 1 from Cape potential areas of disaster be- Aiding GOES-T’s develop- degradation due to a thermal U.S. President Joe Biden announced the increase of US troops Canaveral Space Force Sta- fore they occur, said John Ga- ment was the United Launch disruption blocking a flow of in Europe to strengthen NATO’s eastern flank as a response to tion on a United Launch Alli- gosian, Director, NASA’s Joint Alliance, L3Harris and Lock- coolant, said Larry Crawford, the build-up of Russian troops near the Ukrainian border. ance Atlas V rocket thanks to Agency Satellite Division heed Martin; the latter of the ABI program manager. a collaboration between the The satellite will allow sci- which helped developed the The hardware responsible was A total of 1,700 troops will be redeployed from the U.S. to Po- National Oceanic and Atmo- entists to monitor and predict spacecraft, lightning mapper identified and eliminated from land, while a further 300 troops are to be sent to Germany. In spheric Administration and environmental conditions like and solar imager. GOES-T’s GOES-T’s construction. turn, some 1,000 U.S. troops currently stationed in Germany will NASA along with several other hurricanes, thunderstorms, spacecraft was mated to a pay- After the March 1 launch, be redeployed to Romania, which shares a border with Ukraine. partners. floods, dense fog and fire. load adaptor in January, which the newly designated GOES- Czech President Milos Zeman meanwhile sounded a rather GOES-T, roughly the size of The GOES-R satellites are is a piece of hardware that in- 18 will spend the majority of different note, when he spoke out against sending Czech troops a small school bus, is the third equipped with advanced tech- terfaces mechanically between a year getting ready to become in the GOES-R series of four nology that deliver 60 times ULA’s Atlas V rocket and the operational. Its first images to reinforce NATO positions during a television discussion on advanced weather satellites. more imagery than the previ- spacecraft. won’t be seen until May 2023. Sunday. The value of GOES-T isn’t ex- ous generation, Sullivan said, “It is the start of integrated ABI data will be flowing in an Zeman, who as president is also technically commander-in- actly clear as the NOAA doesn’t such as the new Advanced operations, which is now the operational sense, but the chief of the Czech armed forces, said that sending Czech troops individually price out satellites Baseline Imager (ABI), which satellite and the rocket are satellite still won’t be 100% would constitute unnecessary “saber rattling.” one by one, said Pam Sullivan can view the Earth in 16 dif- starting to come together,” ready for usage, Sullivan said. Arguing that the tensions between the West and Russia over director of the GOES-R pro- ferent kinds of spectral bands said GOES-T Mission Manager However, data will be made Ukraine were currently only a “war of words” fueled by both sides, gram. However, Sullivan did including two visible channels, Rex Engelhardt. “We’ve been available by early July 2023 say the four-part project costs four near-infrared channels, doing a lot of analysis, but this for forecasters as an additional Zeman said that the conflict should be limited to that. $11.7 billion. and 10 infrared channels. The is the first piece of rocket hard- data set to compare to. Earlier, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky argued that “The value is returned to us previous generation of GOES ware that we’re putting togeth- While GOES-T is prepped the deployment of additional NATO troops to areas bordering public in benefits provided,” could only view five different er with the satellite.” for launch, the NOAA is al- Ukraine also served Czech security. Sullivan. “The observations of bands. The ABI will help scien- GOES-T has quite a big ready thinking about the fu- Zeman criticized what he described as false reports that these satellites is even more tists predict where fires on the family tree of geostationary ture, planning its sixth genera- played up the danger of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, saying he critical now that the U.S. is ex- west coast could start before satellites stemming back to tion geostationary observing periencing a record number of they ever form, Sullivan said. 1974, and it appears to have a station called GOXO which will did not fear such an attack. billion dollar disasters.” GOES-T is also equipped with long future soaring ahead of it operate into the 2050s with “The Russians are not madmen,” Zeman said, adding that Last year, dry and heated a lightning camera that tracks as well with scientists planning even more advanced technol- Moscow knew very well that it had far more to lose than it stood conditions led to an unprec- severe storms that spawn tor- to use it into the 2030s. ogy, Sullivan said. to gain from an invasion of Ukraine. 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