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Raytheon's GOES-R Team Featured in Space News
Date posted: 06/15/2009*
A Raytheon lead team pursuing the next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) was featured Sept. 14 in Space News. The article discussed the impact that future technology will have on evacuating cities more precisely in the path of a hurricane. GOES is a joint project of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA.
"There’s a rule of thumb that it costs $1 million per mile to evacuate, with areas that have a higher population density having a higher cost per mile," said Mike Ruggles, IIS GOES-R program director. "With a better knowledge and better ability to predict, we can narrow in those error bars and evacuate less coastline.”
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With a large footprint in environmental solutions, Raytheon will leverage its experience and technology to develop and deploy a GOES-R integrated ground segment tailored to meet NOAA’s needs and ensure mission continuity.
When the GOES-R satellite is launched in 2015, it will provide more detailed data than ever before. This could allow forecasters to narrow the cone of uncertainty they now use when determining where a hurricane will strike. GOES-R will not only improve the quality and accuracy of weather forecasts, it will also help scientists document and understand the increasingly important climate record.
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