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The GOES Time Code Service, 1974–2004: A Retrospective

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 th...

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Autores principales: Lombardi, Michael A., Hanson, D. Wayne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: [Gaithersburg, MD] : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4847573/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27308105
http://dx.doi.org/10.6028/jres.110.008
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Sumario: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.