The final piece of an advanced series of weather satellites officially began operating Tuesday to help provide better forecasts on Earth and in space, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

The system, aboard the Himawari-10 satellite, built by Mitsubishi ... to further improve the accuracy of weather forecasts for Japan and the Asia-Pacific region, as well as the rest of the world ...

providing the most sophisticated technology ever flown in space to help forecast weather on Earth," said Stephen Volz, assistant administrator for NOAA's Satellite and Information Service ...