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Hurricane Isabel captured by NOAA-15

NOAA-15 Makes 100 Thousandth Orbit

A feat 19 years in the making, NOAA-15 recently made its 100,000th trip around the Earth!
GOES-R mission rehearsal at NSOF. Credit: GOES-R Series Program

GOES-R Rehearsals: Preparing to Deploy

The GOES-R team has begun a series of important rehearsals to simulate specific steps in the deployment of the satellite, such as spacecraft separation. Mission rehearsals use a satellite simulator to train operations personnel and test the readiness of the ground system. (The ground system is a global network of receiving stations linked to NOAA which distributes the satellite data and derived products to users worldwide). 
GOES-16 "sandwich" imagery of derecho

GOES-16 Offers Spectacular View of July 19 Derecho

GOES-16 offers an amazing look at the derecho that tore through the north-central Plains on July 19, 2017.
Sarsat rescues by month

Does Summer Fun Mean More SARSAT Rescues? We Crunched the Numbers

Summer is here! For many of us, that means summer vacations, and, in general, more time spent outdoors. But we wondered: with nicer weather and more people engaged in outdoor recreation, will the SARSAT system in the United States and surrounding regions receive more calls for help? 
GOES-16 GLM imagery of Hurricane Eugene and lightning on the mainland

GOES-16’s Lightning Mapper Demonstrates Lightning Behavior

Notice anything interesting about this imagery from GOES-16's Geostationary Lightning Mapper?
GOES-S_1 is the full satellite during an operation to deploy the Antenna Wing Assembly

NOAA’s GOES-S and GOES-T Satellites Coming Together

Progress continues on the development of NOAA's GOES-S and GOES-T spacecraft that will follow the successful launch of GOES-R, renamed GOES-16 upon reaching geostationary orbit. 
GOES-16 imagery featuring EUMETSAT Dust Enhancement

It’s a Dusty World: NOAA Satellites Help Us Keep Track of It

It's dusty out there. Beyond the research indicating the frequency of dust storms is on the rise around the world, scientists estimate that, on average, about 20 teragrams of dust are suspended in the atmosphere at any given time!
solstice

GOES-16 Sees the Summer Solstice Arrive!

Watch the amount of sunlight reaching the North Pole increase with the coming summer solstice in this animation of GOES-16 visible imagery! 
map of storm with lightning

Hunting for Lightning: A Day at the GOES-16 Post-Launch Field Campaign

It’s mid-April 2017 and NOAA’s GOES-16 Field Campaign, a two-month-long effort to calibrate and validate the earth viewing instruments on NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite, has officially entered its second phase. As storm clouds gather, excitement in the field campaign operations center grows. The call was made the evening before. There is going to be a mission this morning— a hunt for lightning.