![]() ![]() If approved, GEO-XO-Central would fly NOAA’s first operational hyperspectral sounder in geostationary orbit. The GEO-XO-Central satellite would carry a different suite of instruments: a hyperspectral infrared sounder, an atmospheric composition sensor and a not-yet-selected partner payload. “Beach closures due to harmful algal blooms didn’t happen two decades ago but now they happen hundreds of times a year,” Sullivan said. In addition, ocean-color sensors to monitor coastal areas and identify harmful algal blooms would be mounted on the satellites. Like their predecessors, GOES-West and GOES-East, the GEO-West and GEO-East satellites would carry lightning mappers and space weather instruments. ![]() 元Harris Technologies and Raytheon Intelligence & Space are performing design studies of next-generation imagers for NOAA under contracts awarded in April. The primary instrument for the GEOWest and GEO-East satellites would be updated imagers to provide continuous observation of the United States, Mexico, Central America, South America, the Caribbean and much of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Under the current plan, which is beginning to take shape but has yet to be approved, the GEO-XO constellation would include satellites over the Eastern and Western United States like the current GOES-R series plus a third satellite over the center of the United States. ![]()
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