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in just about 40 minutes this united

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launch alliance atlas v rocket will

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launch goes-t into space the satellite

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will continue nearly 50 years of

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protecting people and property from

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severe and potentially deadly

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welcome and thank you for joining us

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here at kennedy space center in florida

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i'm nasa's megan cruz the rocket's right

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there on the pad behind me and this is

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kevin fryer he's with noah the national

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oceanic and atmospheric administration

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great to have you here kevin great to be

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here and thank you for having me it's

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kind of cold though a little windy a

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little windy absolutely i think that's

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going to be the biggest concern for the

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launch today but so far we are 80

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percent go so i hope that we can see

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this thing launched yeah that's great

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news kevin is here because ghost t is a

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noaa mission nasa and noaa have been

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launching those satellites since 1975

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right yeah it's an amazing relationship

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that we've been able to have with nasa

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um over the past 50 years the one thing

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we can say is that we've actually saved

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lives as a result of that we've also

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obviously moved the science forward with

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with advanced satellites but for the

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most part what we like to hang our hat

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on is that we save lives yeah ghosty is

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the third in a series called goes-r you

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know you're the chief of staff of that

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program can you tell us a little bit

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about that series sure within the

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program we like to say that not only can

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we provide you with a big picture but we

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can also read the fine print again being

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one of the most sophisticated satellites

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in the geostationary orbit our

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capabilities are basically to provide

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you with a constant view of the earth in

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our case we're able to look at half of

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the globe

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and in doing so we're also able to

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inform you on the environmental changes

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over time so we're so ghosty is going to

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be looking at what happens here on earth

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in terms of terrestrial weather but also

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space weather right that's another

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reason why we're incredibly excited

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about this package that we'll be able to

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launch today not only are we improving

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what we can see on earth but also what

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affects us from space and space weather

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does really affect us i learned that

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while i was researching this mission so

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i'm interested to hear more about that

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and we will learn more about it later in

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this broadcast now goes stands for

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geostationary operational environmental

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satellites geostationary refers to where

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and how the satellite will orbit the

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earth so this might be a little

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difficult to understand unless you see

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it right so this is why we brought some

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props here today kevin let's start off

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by just talking about how you determine

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a satellite orbit so it's really

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determined by its overall role right

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what is the job of that particular

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satellite so in case of polar orbiters

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they typically will rotate

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along the poles and their job is

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basically to image the entire planet as

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it planet rotates underneath it so there

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is a there is a time frame for which

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they can provide you a global image and

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so again in a low earth orbit that is

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why you'll see those particular

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satellites used but the geostationary

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orbit it has to be in a fixed place

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so in the sky at all times right correct

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and actually to achieve that you have to

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be 22 000

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miles above the planet and as a result

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so it can actually spin with the earth

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as it continues to rotate so relative to

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your position on earth you will always

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see this particular satellite in its

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place so that's why we say it will keep

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continuous watch over the western

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hemisphere with a second ghost satellite

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right absolutely so between the two of

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them they'll be able to cover this

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portion of the hemisphere we're talking

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about from

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western africa all the way to new

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zealand all right and ghost goes-t will

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reach that geostationary orbit on march

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12th and now let's take a closer look at

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the satellite goes-t is the size of a

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small school bus and weighs over 6 000

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pounds it has a five-panel solar array

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which you see there it's the one that's

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kind of swinging out

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they'll produce more than five thousand

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watts of energy which is the same amount

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needed to power your home's central ac

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system

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goes-t has six advanced instruments that

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can analyze weather hazards and

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environmental conditions

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the plan is for goes-t to replace one of

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two goes satellites already in orbit