Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
GOES 10 known as GOES-K before becoming operational was an American weather satellite which formed part of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite system. It was launched in 1997 and after completing operations as part of the main GOES system it was kept online as a backup spacecraft until December 2009 providing coverage of South America as GOES-SOUTH and being used to assist with hurricane predictions for North America.
