New geostationary weather satellite goes into operation

I don't know if this was coincidental or not, but as the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season encroaches, the new NASA-launched, NOAA-operated GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or similar) has just been certified as ready for observations. I'm still peevish at NOAA for the NPOESS ongoing screw-the-f*ck-up, but they do some things right. I guess NASA has to get the assist on this success.

GOES-13 is America's new GOES-East satellite