Kristen's Classroom: New weather satellite goes live

AUSTIN (KXAN) - Meteorologists use many tools to help analyze weather data and develop a forecast. One of those tools is weather satellites, and there's a familiar yet new one orbiting our planet that has just become operational this week.

GOES-R satellite series

NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES)– R Series is known as the Western Hemisphere’s "most sophisticated weather-observing and environmental-monitoring system"(NOAA). Made up of 4 weather satellites...