Even deadly hurricanes appreciate irony once in a while. Lying directly in the path of fearsome Hurricane Matthew, which could become the first Category 3 or stronger hurricane to strike the U.S. since 2005, is America's next-generation, $1.2 billion weather satellite.
The spacecraft, known as GOES-R (GOES stands for "geostationary operational environmental satellite"), is sittiing in a clean room at a building in Titusville, Florida, which is on the state's northeast coast, across the Intracoastal Waterway from Kennedy Space Center.
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