When the GOES-R weather satellite is launched in 2015, the more detailed data it is expected to produce could reduce costly hurricane evacuations that plague U.S. coasdines along the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic, industry officials bidding to work on the project say. The next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES), a joint project of NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), will provide more detailed data that could allow forecasters to narrow the cone of uncertainty they now use when determining where a hurricane might strike, said Mike Ruggles, GOES-R program director for Raytheon, one of two companies vying for the GOES-R ground segment contract.
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