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Article: The GOES time code service, 1974-2004: a retrospective.(Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites)
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- Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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NIST ended its Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) time code service at 0 hours, 0 minutes Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) on January 1, 2005. To commemorate the end of this historically significant service, this article provides a retrospective look at the GOES service and the important role it played in the history of satellite timekeeping.
Key words: broadcasting; Coordinated Universal Time (UTC); orbit prediction; satellites; timekeeping.
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1. Introduction
After nearly 30 years of continuous operation, NIST ended its Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) time code service at 0 ...