Saturday - June 27, 2009
Space News Today
Today’s Space Weather: No sunspots, no solar flares, with a mild and light solar wind. A cool and quiet day in the cosmos.
Solar wind
speed: 414.3 km/sec
density: 7.2 protons/cm3
X-ray Solar Flares
6-hr max: A0 2025 UT Jun27
24-hr: A0 2025 UT Jun27
Daily Sun: 27 June 09
The sun is blank--no sunspots.
Credit: SOHO/MDI
Links for more solar details here and here, along with the asteroid threat level [currently at zero].
While the sun had 200+ sunspot free days in the latter half of 2008, it has not been sunspot free for all of 2009. But we are at a minima in solar cycle 24, and sunspot activity continues to be very low.
In just under an hour, NASA will try again to launch the latest GEOS-O weather satellite, scheduled for 6:14PM EST. The weather has not been cooperative. If today’s window is closed, NASA will try again Monday.
GOES-O is the latest weather satellite developed by NASA to aid the nation’s meteorologists and climate scientists. The acronym stands for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite. The spacecraft in the series provide the familiar weather pictures seen on United States television newscasts every day. The satellites are equipped with a formidable array of sensors and instruments.
GOES provides nearly continuous imaging and sounding, which allows forecasters to better measure changes in atmospheric temperature and moisture distributions, hence increasing the accuracy of their forecasts. GOES environmental information is used for a host of applications, including weather monitoring and prediction models.
UPDATE: Mission is GO
The GOES-O satellite lifted off from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 6:51 p.m. EDT atop a Delta IV rocket. From a position about 22,300 miles above Earth, the advanced weather satellite will keep an unblinking eye on atmospheric conditions in the Eastern United States and Atlantic Ocean.
So now that the government has destroyed the current economy and laid plans to destroy the economy for the next 20 years, they launch a satellite to see whether this Global Warming stuff is real or not. Wonderful.
Wait, that’s not fair. GOES-O will help the weather lady predict that it will continue to rain in New Jersey. As usual.
Posted by Drew458
on 06/27/2009 at 03:47 PM
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