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U.S. Celebrates 50 Years of GOES Weather Satellites

by Weatherboy Team Meteorologist - April 19, 2025

This year marks the 50th anniversary that GOES weather satellites have been in space capturing invaluable weather insights for the U.S.. Image: NOAA

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GOES-U Weather Satellite Launches to Space

by Weatherboy Team Meteorologist - June 25, 2024

SpaceX launches the GOES-U weather satellite into space today on its Falcon Heavy rocket. Image: Lockheed Martin Space

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SpaceX Technical Glitch Forces Weather Satellite Launch Delay

by Weatherboy Team Meteorologist - February 27, 2024

The Falcon Heavy sits on the launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photograph: SpaceX

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Pentagon Shoots Down Mystery Flying Object Over Alaska

by Weatherboy Team Meteorologist - February 10, 2023

White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby briefs members of the press of today's incident over Alaska. Image: The White House

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Weather Satellites and their SARSAT Technology Saved Hundreds of Lives in 2022

by Weatherboy Team Meteorologist - January 27, 2023

A still photo taken from a video of a Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans MH-60 Jayhawk aircrew rescuing a boater from a capsized vessel near Slidell, Louisiana, on September 18, 2022. The boaters and their dog were safely rescued and transported to a nearby marina. Image: US Coast Guard

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GOES-West Weather Satellite Becomes Operational, Just in Time For Bomb Cyclone and Pineapple Express Event

by Weatherboy Team Meteorologist - January 5, 2023

With GOES-West now in place and operational, the U.S. now has comprehensive coverage of the latest in weather satellite technology. Image: NOAA

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First Visible Image from New Weather Satellite Made Public

by Weatherboy Team Meteorologist - December 8, 2022

Unlike geostationary satellites, polar-orbiting satellites capture swaths of data throughout the full globe, and observe the entire planet twice each day. This global mosaic, captured by the VIIRS instrument on the recently launched NOAA-21 satellite, is a composite image created from these swaths over a period of 24 hours between Dec. 5 and Dec. 6, 2022. Credit: NOAA STAR VIIRS SDR team.

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First Image from New Weather Satellite Shared

by Weatherboy Team Meteorologist - November 23, 2022

This first image released by NOAA is from the new NOAA-21 satellite; it shows water vapor across the globe. Image: NOAA

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Massive Fire Burning in New Jersey Visible on Weather Satellite Imagery

by Weatherboy Team Meteorologist - June 20, 2022

A special filtered view from the GOES-East weather satellite shows a large fire burning over southern New Jersey; with northwest winds blowing over the flames, this loop shows the fire spreading to the south and east too, as indicated by the highlighted orange pixels which show a fire signature on this view. Image: NOAA

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New Weather Satellite Sends Back First Images; Will Shift to Pacific Over Time

by Weatherboy Team Meteorologist - May 13, 2022

This GOES-18 image shows the contiguous United States observed by each of the ABI’s 16 channels on May 5, 2022. This 16-panel image shows the ABI’s two visible, four near-infrared and 10 infrared channels. The visible and near-IR bands are gray-colored, while the infrared bands have the warmer brightness temperatures mapped to warmer colors. The different appearance of each band is due to how each band reflects or absorbs radiation. Each spectral band was scanned at approximately the same time, starting at 18 UTC. Image: NOAA

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GOES-T Achieves Geostationary Orbit 22,236 Miles Above Earth; Renamed GOES-18.

by Weatherboy Team Meteorologist - March 14, 2022

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket lifts NOAA's newest weather satellite into space on March 1. Image: ULA

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Soon-To-Be GOES-West Weather Satellite Successfully Launched to Space

by Weatherboy Team Meteorologist - March 2, 2022

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket lifts NOAA's newest weather satellite into space on March 1. Image: ULA

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GOES-T Weather Satellite “GO” For Launch Today

by Weatherboy Team Meteorologist - March 1, 2022

The rocket launch will be visible from most of Florida and portions of the southeast coast. Image: ULA

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Impaired GOES-West Satellite Returns to Service

by Weatherboy Team Meteorologist - July 23, 2021

Latest view of Earth from the now-restored GOES-West weather satellite. Image: NOAA

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NASA Selects ULA to Launch Weather Satellite

by Weatherboy Team Meteorologist - December 21, 2019

The GOES-R series of weather satellites, including this malfunctioning GOES-18

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COSMIC-2 Weather Satellites Launch

by Weatherboy Team Meteorologist - June 25, 2019

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying 24 satellites as part of the Department of Defense's Space Test Program-2 (STP-2) mission launches from Launch Complex 39A, Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Image: NASA / Joel Kowsky

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