Satellite tracking Atlantic hurricanes is broken

[John Teller]

I was thinking that was the one that so infamously fell over during 
integration & test - but it's not.  The failed satellite is GOES-13, not 
NOAA-19

http://www.space.com/17748-major-weather-satellite-goes-13-fails.html

---JST


On 09/27/2012 07:55 PM, w3hwn at comcast.net wrote:
> There have been instances in the past when ghe GOES-East bird went 
> south and we borrowed a bird from EUMETSAT until we
> got one  on location. (They've borrowed one of ours on occasion, too.)
>
> The linked article mentioned help from the Europeans, so something 
> like that may be afoot this time as well. Have seen no news on he subject.
>
> Dick
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From: *"Bob Bruhns" <bbruhns at erols.com>
> *To: *tacos at amrad.org
> *Sent: *Thursday, September 27, 2012 11:21:12 AM
> *Subject: *Re: Satellite tracking Atlantic hurricanes is broken
>
> Just at hurricane season, when storms have been unusually strong, 
> too.  Hopefully it's some software glitch that might be turning some 
> system on and off rapidly, but it may be a stabilizer wheel failure, 
> or some such.  Good thing there are other satellites that can provide 
> some backup that can serve in the meantime, if not quite as well.
>
>    Bob, WA3WDR
>
>
> On 9/27/2012 10:30 AM, Andre Kesteloot wrote:
>
>
>     Thought that some of AMRAD's space-focussed people might be
>     interested...
>
>     http://hamptonroads.com/2012/09/satellite-tracking-atlantic-hurricanes-broken
>
>
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