NOAA/NASA GOES-T Mission Science Briefing

The Science Briefing for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-T (GOES-T) has representatives from NASA, NOAA, Lockheed Martin, and L3Harris Technologies. The GOES-T satellite is part of the GOES-R series helping meteorologists observe and predict local weather events, including thunderstorms, tornadoes, fog, hurricanes, flash floods and other severe weather. GOES-T is scheduled to launch on March 1, 2022 at 4:38 p.m. EST from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 541 rocket. The launch is managed by NASA’s Launch Services Program based at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The participants include: Dr. Dan Lindsey, GOES-R Program Scientist, NOAA; Dr. James "Jim" Yoe, Chief Administrator, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; Candace Carlisle, GOES-R Flight Project Manager, Goddard Space Flight Center; Tewa Kpulun, Geostationary Lightning Mapper Science Lead, Lockheed Martin; Daniel Gall, ABI Program Manager, Advanced Baseline Imager Chief Systems Engineer, Space and Airborne Systems, L3Harris Technologies