NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) are located roughly 36,000 km above the earth, directly over the equator. These satellites revolve at the same speed and direction as ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Since 1975, the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) has provided continuous imagery and data on both atmospheric conditions and solar activity. They have also been ...

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The milestone comes after a Mar. 1, 2022, launch and post-launch testing of the satellite’s instruments, systems, and data. GOES-18 replaces GOES-17 as GOES West, located 22,236 miles above the ...

Next generation weather forecasting made its debut this week in NASA's brand new GOES-16 satellite. The new bird takes high-resolution images of Earth in up to sixteen different colors (wavelengths) ...

NOAA’s GOES-West satellite captured this image of the July 24, 2024 hot spot and smoke from Park Fire in northern California. The Park Fire was the largest single wildfire of California’s 2024 season ...

The Magnetometer instrument that will fly on NOAA's GOES-R satellite when it is launched in early 2016 has completed the development and testing phase and is ready to be integrated with the spacecraft ...

The Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) instrument for NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite – R (GOES-R) completed development and testing and is now ready for integration with ...

The Solar Ultraviolet Imager, or SUVI, onboard NOAA’s GOES-18 satellite, which launched on March 1, 2022, began observing the sun on June 24, 2022. SUVI monitors the sun in the extreme ultraviolet ...

What a storm looks like through the NOAA's GOES-West satellite. Credit: CIRA / NOAA | edited by Steve Spaleta Defense Dept. threatens Sen. Mark Kelly with court martial Surfers robbed, murdered in ...