Final GOES series weather satellite, with ties to Rochester set to launch soon

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possession of a forged instrument. If you don't. >> This coming Tuesday, the last of the current generation of weather satellites set to launch from Cape Canaveral. Dubbed you. The satellite will join the others in orbit with a piece of Rochester with it. Meteorologist Leanne Healy can tell us exactly what he piece of equipment is going along for the right lane. >> there's a reason. Yeah, that piece of equipment comes via L 3 Harris who has provided the main instrument known as the Advanced Baseline Image or for each of the goes, satellites have been launched in the past decade or so. Well, the EB, I wasn't built in the Flower did spend some time here going through some extreme testing to make sure it was ready for what it would face when the time came for launch. According to Chris Reeve who is headed L 3 Harris's work on the satellite. >> We just delivered goes. You spacecraft down to Cape Canaveral a little more than a couple months ago. Before then we had to install the instrument on the spacecraft and that's where it comes back to us and where we did our own environmental test. You know, Rochester, New York facility for this particular iteration work has been ongoing since 2017 in that time. They've also gone through that same process of building testing and installing for 2 other satellites in the series. You have to goes to launch that happened in 2022, we have. >> goes launch which happened in 2018. The instrument here in question 2 is what makes this satellite a weather satellite keeping an eye on the sky monitoring things. 24 hours a day from up in the heavens really use it would put it is it's a really exquisite camera looks at the earth and 16 channels are 16 different colors. There are 2 visible channels of red. >> up blue. And then it actually looks in the infrared spectrum as well. A team is down there now making sure the instrument is set to go with the launch scheduled for Tuesday, June 25th, of course, weather permitting. Even then it will be some time before the satellite is fully up and running. It actually takes several weeks to get to the Jews And 22,003 miles long way to go. it will be up there. 3 weeks, do a door opening >> which will be probably sometime in August will go through the honor of a test of The instrument will probably be looking at handover sometime in 2025. Once this satellite is fully operational to it will replace will be currently call goes East, which is the satellite that's focus right over us here in Rochester. one will be placed

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