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in the case of katrina i remember

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watching on tv looking at the satellite

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predictions were pretty much right on

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if you go back and look at the national

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hurricane center out of miami six days

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out they gave very accurate forecasts in

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where hurricane katrina was going to go

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all those images that you saw were

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coming from the goes satellite

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the luxury we have with these new

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satellites and their new capabilities

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and their accuracy is that to get people

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out of the way when we know it's going

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to hit

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is is a serious advantage that these

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satellites are providing us every time

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there's a hurricane i know that goes is

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the next go satellite to be launched is

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goes o which we've made some

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we have two satellites that are

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operational but where philosophy also is

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to launch spares so goes-o is actually

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going into a spare slide so if one of

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them were to fail you know abruptly

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we would

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activate the one that's in storage goes

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the g stands for geosynchronous and it's

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out about 36 000 kilometers and it sits

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on the equator goes is looking at the

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continental us and the earth all the

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time so we can really dwell on storms

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that's why goes is more critical for the

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daily

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weather monitoring and goes is what you

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some of the main improvements we have on

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goes-o

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are in the stability and the reliability

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of the pointing of the image data that

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we get from our primary instruments that

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look at the earth

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the new ones have higher resolution so

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they take better pictures when they

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photograph from space then you could see

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actually what's going on inside the

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hurricane

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these instruments on the go spacecraft

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are also very powerful okay they can

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penetrate down into the atmosphere and

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focus right in on those hurricanes that

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you may see coming across the atlantic

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we also monitor the space weather and

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have the ability to forecast additional

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high levels of radiation for the

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astronauts on the space station as well

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as some interruptions in terrestrial

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communications

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the data that comes from the goes

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satellite is

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almost instantaneous we call it real

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time

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this is the goes operations room this is

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where

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uh we operate all the goes satellite

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okay so what we have right here is our

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uh product monitor display

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this data is coming in in real time from

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the satellite and that's important

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because we want to make sure that the

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weather patterns we're seeing are

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actually over the correct areas

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whenever severe storms occur on the

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continental united states or out in the

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atlantic ocean that are forming

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hurricanes the gozo satellite has the

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ability to focus in and track those

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severe storms so that meteorologists can

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provide better forecasting and warning

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if you did not have these satellites it

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probably would end up costing you more

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in people's lives and property and it

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would be for the cost of the satellite

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itself and the whole operation

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and i don't know that we can put a