Through GOES Rebroadcast, NOAA transmits full-resolution calibrated images and data to customers, like the images from Harris Corp.'s Advanced Baseline Imager shown here. This is the type of service that could be handled by commercial communications firms in the future. Credit: Harris

Lockheed Martin halts work on GOES-T to wait for instrument fix

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Lockheed Martin, prime contractor for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) R Series, has halted work on GOES-T, the next spacecraft scheduled to launch, and turned its attention to its successor, GOES-U, as it waits for Harris Corp. to complete modification of the Advanced Baseline Imager.

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Gary Partyka, who works at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center under a contract with Science Systems and Applications Inc., shows a 2017 simulation of hurricanes and aerosols at the 2019 American Meteorological Society conference in Phoenix. Credit: SpaceNews/Debra Werner

American Meteorological Society meeting requires improvisation

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The American Meteorological Society estimates 3,700 atmospheric and space scientists will gather this week at its 99th annual meeting with another 700 people who planned to attend were forced to stay away due to the government shutdown. The impact of the shutdown may be even greater, though, because the program remained in flux on Monday.

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