Sunday, December 26, 2010

America launched environmental meteorological satellite successfully

NASA successfully launched on March 4 a geostationary meteorological satellites operating environment, it will be used to observe abnormal weather such as hurricanes.
U.S. Eastern Time at 18:57 on the 4th (Beijing time at 7:57 on the 5th), this number "GOES-P" environmental satellite at Cape Canaveral, Florida aboard Air Force Base "Delta -4 "launch vehicle, which is the fourth generation of" GOES "Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite System of the last one.
"GOES-P" The main purpose is to further the satellite to monitor Earth's climate system, including the detection of marine and terrestrial temperature and take a picture, first-hand information for the meteorological departments in order to make accurate hurricane forecasts and other bad weather.

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