16 NC counties are under alert, including Cumberland, Sampson, and Hoke counties.

More than a dozen former employees say understaffing at Brynn Marr Hospital contributes to what they describe as a dangerous place for patients and employees. Hospital officials say allegations of violence, sexual assaults, overmedication and lack of mental health therapy are unfounded.

Former employees say short-staffed NC psych hospital rife with violence, abuse

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According to a recent Edmunds used vehicle report, demand for used cars is dropping and so are their values as the new-car market rebounds from pandemic-induced shortages. T 

Edmunds: Trade or sell your car? What's best might surprise you

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SpaceX held a Starlink launch Monday night. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from its pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base, launching 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit.

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SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket sending 22 satellites into orbit

SpaceX launched 23 Starlink satellites Friday evening, marking the 18th flight for the first stage booster.

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SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites 

A look at how North Carolina members of Congress voted during the previous week.

How they voted: NC congressional votes for the week ending July 27

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A replacement for the quickly aging GOES-17 satellite monitoring weather from above the Pacific Ocean, GOES-T is scheduled for launch Tuesday at 4:38 pm from Cape Canaveral.

NOAA's newest weather satellite cleared for launch

NOAA GOES-T Weather Satellite

<p>Launch of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-T (GOES-T), NOAA's latest weather satellite, was cleared to proceed today at a launch readiness review at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.</p>

<p>Launch is targeted for a two hour window beginning Tuesday, March 1 at 4:38 pm at the adjacent Cape Canaveral Space Force Station from Launch Complex 31. Live coverage begins at 4 p.m. on NASA TV.</p>

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<p>GOES-T is the third satellite in the series which began with the launch of GOES-R better known as GOES-East. WRAL meteorologists as well as their colleagues at the National Weather Services rely on the GOES satellites to provide advanced imagery and atmospheric measurements, real-time mapping of lightning activity, as well as monitoring of space weather.</p>

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<p>Following launch, GOES-T will spend about 9 days moving into position near the center of the continental United States. After a post launch checkout and testing period, it will be moved into position over the Pacific Ocean, renamed GOES-18 and take over GOES-West duties from the troubled GOES-17 satellite.</p>

<p>While much of what you see each day on WRAL comes from GOES-East. But its sister satellite is critical not only to the west coast, especially recently in monitoring wild fires. But much of the weather we see here in North Carolina forms in the Pacific. Long range forecasts here have improved in large part due to the capabilities of the GOES-R series, including GOES-17.</p>

<h3>Replacing the troubled GOES-17</h3>

<p>Shortly after the March 2018 launch of GOES-17, a problem was found in the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI). The ABI views the Earth across 16 different spectral bands enabling forecasters to monitor cloud formation, motion in the atmosphere, convection, land surface temperature, wild fires, smoke, volcanic ash plumes, aerosols and air quality.</p>

<p>As GOES-17 was being checked out, it became clear that there was a problem with the radiator that takes heat away from ABI. At first it looked like the entire cooling system was down, but a blockage in loop heat pipe that helps carry that heat away was foudn to be the likely cause.</p>

<p>Engineers were able to get around the problem by turning up the power on the cryocooler system, but this is expected to shave years on off the lifespan of this important resource.</p>

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<h3>Launch weather</h3>

<p>Weather is looking promising for the launch with 70% probability of "go" conditions. US Space Force forecasters point to the common concern of cumulus clouds in the area and the lightning risk they pose along. Forecasters will also be keeping an eye on electrical potential in the atmosphere near the ground which is measured by coffee can sized field mills across Cape Canaveral.</p>

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<p>GOES-T was originally scheduled as a replacement for GOES-16 which is currently serving that eastern position enabling forecasters to see all the way to coast of Africa, providing valuable information about hurricanes as they form and move toward the Caribbean and east coast of the U.S.</p>

<p>The launch was delayed while the cooling system was redesigned to prevent future problems.</p>

<p>GOES-16 is scheduled to be replaced by GOES-U when it launches in April 2023.</p>

NOAA's latest weather satellite cleared for launch

Whether it's wildfires that sweep across the West Coast, storms rolling in from the Pacific Ocean, or dense fog that blankets the Pacific Northwest, a new weather satellite will be able to track them all.

Keeping a weather eye on Earth from 22,236 miles above the planet

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NASA has released the first snapshots of Earth taken with its new highly sensitive satellite which is designed to capture high-resolution images of the planet and help track the impacts of climate change.

First images from NASA satellite which tracks climate changes released

Landsat 9 image

NASA and the USGS launched the latest in Landsat satellites to help ensure nearly 50 years of continuous data about changes to the Earth's surface goes on.

Landsat 9 continues nearly 50 years of Earth observation

Landsat images from 1993 and 2021 show changes around Carter Finley Stadium in Raleigh

Many WRAL viewers reached out after seeing the mysterious lights Saturday night. 

SUNDAY MORNING BUT IT IS ANYONE'S GUESS WHERE IT WILL LAND. DID YOU SEE SOMETHING UNUSUAL IN THE SKY TONIGHT? >>> WE KNOW YOU DID. DOZENS OF VIEWERS REACHED OUT TO WRAL ABOUT THIS. A LINE OF LIGHTS SEEN IN THE SKY OVER THE TRIANGLE AND WE DID REACH OUT TO NASA AMBASSADOR TONY RICE WHO SAID THESE ARE STAR LINK SATELLITES LAUNCHED EARLIER THIS WEEK. THEY ARE MORE VISIBLE THAN USUAL BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT REACHED THEIR FULL HEIGHT YET. THEY WILL LIKELY BE VISIBLE THE NEXT THREE NIGHTS. THAT IS WHAT IS GOING ON. WE WANTED TO KEEP YOU INFORMED ABOUT THAT PROCESS, ZACH. I KNOW YOU PROBABLY FIELDED SOME CALLS TOO. BECAUSE EVERYONE WANTED TO KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON. >> THERE IS SO MUCH GOING ON IN THE SKY BETWEEN THE CHINESE ROCKET FALLING BACK TO EARTH. A NASA LAUNCH THAT GOT SCRUBBED. SO A LOT GOING ON ABOVE THE GROUND THAT HAD MANY OF YOU QUESTIONING WHAT WE ARE SEEING. AND WE HAD THE CLEAR SKY TO CHECK OUT THE STARLINK SATELLITES. THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE. AND THEY WILL CONTINUE TO BE VISIBLE IN THE NIGHT SKY THE

About those mysterious lights: SpaceX satellites over Wake County cause a stir 

Many WRAL viewers saw the strange lights Saturday night and shared what they saw.

String of satellites baffles residents, bugs astronomers

A growing number of ships waiting for the Suez Canal to reopen is seen in images from a radar equipped Earth observing satellite.

Suez Canal backup visible from space

Ever Given container ship, wedged in Egypt’s Suez Canal, and the ensuring traffic jam, as seen from space.

SpaceX launched a batch of Starlink satellites this morning. The satellites were carried on a Falcon 9 rocket launched from Kennedy Space Center. 

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SpaceX launches batch of Starlink satellites into orbit

SpaceX Starlink launch

More than 830 miles above Earth's surface, a next-generation satellite will keep an eye on global sea levels. The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite launched Saturday.

NASA launch Saturday: This satellite will track Earth's sea level rise

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A European and NASA spacecraft has snapped the closest pictures ever taken of the sun, revealing countless little "campfires" flaring everywhere.

the images that we're going to see soon were taken around the time of our first close approach to the sun, which was at 77 million kilometers, which is just over half the distance between sun and earth. And ah, so this is not quite as close as we will eventually get. Our closest approach will be just over 1/4 off the distance between the sun and birth. And we will reach that in ah, about two years time. Right? So the very first high resolution images that we took were not pointing anywhere. Specifically, we are seeing a small disk, part of the solar. This scared off the corona, which we essentially called the quiet Corona quiet, meaning that nothing is supposed to happen here. But then when you look at it at high resolution, it's amazing in the smallest details How much stuff is going on there? Uh, we couldn't believe this may be first all this and we started giving it crazy names like campfires and dark fibre ALS on ghosts and whatever be so eso There is so much new small phenomena going off on the smaller scale that we are like starting a new vocabulary to give it all names. And many of those things have been seen before at bigger scales, but never got this small scales in the quiet corona.

Scientists reveal closest images of the sun

SpaceX successfully launched the Starlink-1 mission Monday morning. The mission includes the 60 communications satellites, each about the size of a dining room table, the launch in the first operational phase of approximately 1,600 satellites intended to provide high-speed internet service to remote parts of the globe. You can see the satellites launched this week as they pass in a growing line of dots in the evening sky.

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SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket sending 22 satellites into orbit

SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites

How they voted: NC congressional votes for the week ending July 27

NOAA's newest weather satellite cleared for launch

NOAA's latest weather satellite cleared for launch

NOAA's newest weather satellite cleared for launch

Keeping a weather eye on Earth from 22,236 miles above the planet

First images from NASA satellite which tracks climate changes released

Landsat 9 continues nearly 50 years of Earth observation

About those mysterious lights: SpaceX satellites over Wake County cause a stir

String of satellites baffles residents, bugs astronomers

Suez Canal backup visible from space

SpaceX launches batch of Starlink satellites into orbit

NASA launch Saturday: This satellite will track Earth's sea level rise

Scientists reveal closest images of the sun

See SpaceX hardware in the sky and a North Carolina port