NOAA retires NOAA-16 polar satellite
Submit on Tuesday, June 10th, 2014 22:57
After more than 13 years of helping predict weather and climate patterns and save lives in search and rescue operations, NOAA announced it has turned off the NOAA-16 Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellite (POES). It was one of NOAA’s longest operating spacecraft, which have a planned lifespan of three to five years.
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