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St. Louis Science Center: Astronomy Fact Of The Day: September 9, 2021

Today in 1980, NASA launched the GOES-4 weather satellite via a Delta rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. GOES-4 was the first geos ...

September 09, 2021

Today in 1980, NASA launched the GOES-4 weather satellite via a Delta rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. GOES-4 was the first geostationary satellite to provide a continuous look at temperature and moisture conditions in the vertical layers of Earth’s atmosphere. See current images from the GOES Satellite Network here.

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