{"id":76439,"date":"2018-03-01T18:02:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T02:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/next-generation-weather-satellite-launches-to-track-extreme-storms"},"modified":"2018-03-06T14:11:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T22:11:49","slug":"next-generation-weather-satellite-launches-to-track-extreme-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/next-generation-weather-satellite-launches-to-track-extreme-storms","title":{"rendered":"Next-Generation Weather Satellite Launches to Track Extreme Storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/next-generation-weather-satellite-launches-to-track-extreme-storms.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A powerful new weather satellite launched today (March 1) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, heading toward a perch above the eastern Pacific Ocean to monitor extreme weather as it develops.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite, called GOES-S (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S), lifted off on ULA\u2019s Atlas V rocket at 5:02 p.m. EST (2202 GMT).<\/p>\n<p>The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will operate GOES-S in partnership with NASA. The Lockheed Martin-built satellite will join GOES-East, currently in orbit, to provide a broad, high-definition view of weather on Earth. It is the second in a series of four advanced weather satellites that will reside in geostationary orbit \u2014 hanging in place over one spot on Earth as they orbit and the world turns. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/39848-goes-s-weather-satellite-photos.html\">GOES-S: NOAA\u2019s Next-Gen Weather Satellite in Photos<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/39850-next-generation-goes-weather-satellite-launch.html\">https:\/\/www.space.com\/39850-next-generation-goes-weather-satellite-launch.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A powerful new weather satellite launched today (March 1) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, heading toward a perch above the eastern Pacific Ocean to monitor extreme weather as it develops. The satellite, called GOES-S (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S), lifted off on ULA\u2019s Atlas V rocket at 5:02 p.m. EST (2202 GMT). The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76643,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76439\/revisions\/76643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}