Comments on: Goes 12 Dies an Early Death http://wildwildweather.com/forecastblog/2007/12/goes-12-dies-an-early-death/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:51:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: John Van Naarden http://wildwildweather.com/forecastblog/2007/12/goes-12-dies-an-early-death/comment-page-1/#comment-378 John Van Naarden Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:14:14 +0000 http://wildwildweather.com/forecastblog/?p=32#comment-378 Hey Dan, I work for ITT Corp and help to build the Imagers and Sounders that fly in the GOES satellites. I stumbled by your website looking for an RSS feed on satellite outages like this - strange that GOES-12 has had another incident in December. Anyways...cool stuff! BTW, some of the information above is not altogether correct. The GOES satellites are assigned a letter while on the ground and change to a number once they are on-orbit - not when they are operational. Additionally, GOES-13 was actually GOES-N and not GOES-M. John Hey Dan,

I work for ITT Corp and help to build the Imagers and Sounders that fly in the GOES satellites. I stumbled by your website looking for an RSS feed on satellite outages like this - strange that GOES-12 has had another incident in December. Anyways…cool stuff!

BTW, some of the information above is not altogether correct. The GOES satellites are assigned a letter while on the ground and change to a number once they are on-orbit - not when they are operational. Additionally, GOES-13 was actually GOES-N and not GOES-M.

John

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