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New U.S. weather satellite with improved camera sends back first images
This full-disk image over the Americas was captured by GOES-16’s Advanced Baseline Imager at 1807 GMT (1:07 p.m. EDT) on Jan. 15. Credit: NOAA A new-generation weather satellite launched in November promising to deliver better images of hurricanes, storms and clouds than any mission before has returned its first tantalizing pictures from geostationary orbit. NOAA…
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Forecasters worldwide brace for ‘data deluge’ from new weather satellites
Typhoon Megi churns near Taiwan in this Sept. 26 image from the Advanced Himawari Imager aboard Japan’s Himawari 9 weather satellite. Credit: JMA High-tech cameras made in Indiana will soon be scanning across Asia, Australia, the Americas and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to give weather forecasters an unrivaled minute-by-minute glimpse of the development and…
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Japanese weather observatory successfully boosted into orbit
A nearly four-ton satellite fitted with a modernized camera to collect more timely images of typhoons and severe weather bolted away from a seaside launch pad in southern Japan on Wednesday, riding an H-2A rocket on the way to an orbital perch more than 22,000 miles above Earth. The Himawari 9 satellite, built by Mitsubishi…
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H-2A rocket rolls to launch pad with Japanese weather satellite
The H-2A rocket set to launch with the Himawari 9 weather satellite rolled out to its launch pad at the Tanegashima Space Center on Tuesday. Credit: MHI A sophisticated new Japanese weather satellite will ride an H-2A rocket into orbit Wednesday to start a 15-year mission tracking cyclones and helping meteorologists predict storm movements across…