NASA | NOAA's GOES-O Ready To Launch

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This video shows a quick tour and overview of the facilities where the GOES-O satellite was built and tested prior to launch. GOES-O was integrated by Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems in El Segundo, CA and then transported to the testing facility in Titusville, FL. After completion of the test program, performed at the Astrotech facility in Titusville, the spacecraft will be launched on a United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket from Cape Canaveral, FL.

[spacestevie]

There is a sophisticated tracking network that tracks satellites and other space objects and derbies. NORAD is the primary agency for this. However, there is no real control and no way to really prevent objects from hitting each other. There was a recent collision of a Russian satellite and and IRIDIUM satellite which resulted in the destruction of both satellites. This may result in some sort of international coordination of positions of satellites.

[AJPlanet]

Satellite looks complicated, intresting.

[opchidexio]

I am fast becoming a satellite freak. LOL