GOES-Q Sounder

The GOES-Q sounder was designed to provide information about the vertical distribution of atmospheric temperatures and water vapor for weather prediction models and short-term severe weather forecasts. The GOES-Q Sounder didn’t get to fly in space because the existing Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) at the time were outperforming their life expectancies and construction of the GOES-Q satellite was cancelled in 2002. This sounder will be on display in NASM’s new One World Connected Gallery exhibit on climate change.