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SWFO-L1 will transmit data to Earth continuously in real-time, protecting vital infrastructure, economic interests, and national security.
Monitoring the sun NOAA's SWFO-L1
NOAA celebrates 50 years of its heralded Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite program.
Fifty Years! 50 Years of GOES
Feature Stories
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Feature Story
The JPSS VIIRS Day/Night Band, with its low-light sensitivity, captures auroras and shows how solar… -
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The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) has released the results of the nation’s first… -
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Here is a list of some of the most memorable solar events that have affected us here on Earth. -
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The March 2025 three-month summaries of temperature and precipitation impacts and outlooks are now…
Data & New Technology
Commercial Data Program
NESDIS assesses and acquires space-based observational weather data from the private sector.
Improving weather forecasts Commercial Data Program
Data Collections
NOAA collects the most up-to-date data about the atmosphere, land, and oceans.
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Joint Venture Partnerships
Leveraging new data sources and exploring new and innovative technologies.
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News & Announcements
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Announcement
On Sept. 13, NOAA awarded Knowledge Mesh/Natural Language Processing (KM/NLP) contracts with a… -
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NASA, on behalf of NOAA, has selected Lockheed Martin Corp. to develop a lightning mapping… -
Earth from Orbit
NOAA satellites have been closely tracking Tropical Storm Francine since it formed in the… -
Satellite Snapshots
On Sept. 4, 2024, the VIIRS instrument on board NOAA’s JPSS Program satellites captured this True… -
Announcement
The Space Environment In-Situ Suite (SEISS) instrument onboard NOAA's GOES-19 satellite is now… -
Satellite Snapshots
Seven years ago, on August 25, 2017, Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas—marking the beginning…