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NOAA'S GOES-2 SATELLITE BOOSTED OUT OF FORMER ORBIT
TO MAKE ROOM FOR NEW
After a long and distinguished career spanning almost 24 years, one of the
nation's workhorse satellites was boosted into higher orbit and removed
from service, announced the Commerce Department's (DOC) National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). GOES-2, launched from Cape
Canaveral on June 16, 1977, was operational as an imaging satellite until
1993, when it stopped giving imagery of cloud conditions across the United
States. At that time GOES-2 was deactivated, but left in its old orbit
position.
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