NOAA officially deactivated its Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-10 after 12 years of service. GOES-10 tracked some of the most memorable tropical cyclones in history, including Hurricane Mitch, which devastated parts of Central America in 1998; and Hurricane Katrina, which ravaged the Gulf Coast in 2005.
NOAA anticipated the end of service for several months and began deactivating GOES-10 yesterday, when it fired the spacecraft's booster moving the satellite into an orbit approximately 22,186 miles above the Earth. The agency finished its third, and final, firing of the booster putting it safely out of commission.
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