NOAA shifting GOES-9 away from sun in heat-control experiment

Controllers at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are pointing the GOES-9 weather satellite away from the sun for about six hours a day in an effort to save the platform's instruments from overheating. High temperatures knocked out a backup motor on the satellite's imager about...

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