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GOES-10 Deactivated

On December 2, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) officially deactivated its Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-10 (GOES-10) after 12 years of service. By May 2010, the GOES-12 satellite will replace GOES-10, which was covering South America, and GOES-13 will take GOES-12's place over the eastern U.S.
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GOES-10 Meteorological Satellite Will Be Replaced By GOES-12 In December

Managed by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, from the United States, the meteorological satellite GOES-10 is used by National Institute for Space Research for the weather forecast. The satellite will be disabled on December first, when will be running out of fuel to keep itself in a right orbital position.
Geostationary, GOES-10 is located at 60W to cover South America completely and to provide images every 15 minutes. GOES-12 satellite, which will replace GOES-10, is located at 75W and will be able to cover South America every 30 minutes.
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