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the mission itself for goes is

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incredibly exciting the interesting

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thing is that we get to operate

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satellites

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it's really satisfying to actually get

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to make it work and see it operate to

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see the fruits of my labor

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it's a very warm feeling once we get to

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the end of it seeing that the

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satellite's providing data that actually

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the biggest form of contamination for

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the satellite is the human body so what

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you have to do is you have to dress in a

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special suit

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this jumpsuit protects you from

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producing contamination that can

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actually be very harmful to the

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satellite because if it gets on optics

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and you get on space those optics can't

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be cleaned

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here we go all ready to go into the air

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and head into the clean room

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we're in titusville florida which is

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where this test facility is and this is

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we're getting it ready to be put onto

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the launch pad at cape canaveral in a

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few weeks

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the satellite is built in el segundo

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california in our satellite

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manufacturing facility and then we ship

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it out here on a plane we have a special

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container we put on a c-17 plane and we

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we need to make sure that everything

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operates on the satellite properly we

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have to thoroughly test it make sure

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it'll survive so probably the biggest

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tests are our environmental tests so

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vibration we actually shake the

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satellite just like it's going to

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experience when it's launching and the

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biggest test is sctv

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which is where we put the spacecraft in

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a thermal vacuum chamber so we pump it

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down to zero vacuum and simulate the

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as we approach the launch date we run

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through a series of tests to make sure

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that the satellite is healthy and to

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verify that all the personnel in the

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control center know exactly what they're

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orbit this is the goes launch control

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center this is the area the center of

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activity for everything that happens

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once the go satellite is released from

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the rocket

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until it gets on orbit and through its

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own orbit activity for the first six

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months

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during which we check out the spacecraft

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and make sure it's certified for

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operations once the spacecraft is

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launched and it's going into its

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geostationary orbit we use nasa ground

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antennas to communicate to space from

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this control center these are the

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workstations that we use to operate the

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gozo satellite what these guys do

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they're the first line of defense

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performing all the commanding necessary

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to keep it safe

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okay so what he's doing here is he's

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monitoring the

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daily command schedule

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which consists of all of the commands

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necessary to take the images of the

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earth

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it is really the journey of going from

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the initial development of the satellite

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through the ability to be able to see

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the weather pictures on television that

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are taken from that satellite and see

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how well it's performing it's a great