Lockheed Martin successfully mates NOAA GOES-R satellite modules
Friday, September 19, 2014 - 09:30
in Astronomy & Space
A team of technicians and engineers at Lockheed Martin has successfully mated together the large system and propulsion modules of the first GOES-R series weather satellite at the company's Space Systems facilities near Denver, Colorado. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R series (GOES-R) is NOAA's next-generation geostationary weather satellites.