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Earth from Orbit
Happy Earth Day from NOAA Satellites
NOAA satellites have been monitoring Earth’s weather and environment since 1970, which also happened to be the year the first official Earth Day took place!
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Satellite Snapshots
NOAA Satellites Capture Heavy Sediment Runoff Due to Mississippi River Flooding
NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) satellites captured striking imagery of sediment runoff due to flooding in the Mississippi River delta from April 8–13, 2025.
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Satellite Snapshots
NOAA Satellites Help Show Historic Flooding Along Ohio River
NOAA's JPSS Program satellites captured flooding along the Ohio River on April 7, 2025.
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Announcement
Statement on the Release of the Radio Occultation Analysis of Alternatives Phase 1 Report Summary and Commercial Data Program RO Objectives
In January 2025, NOAA/NESDIS completed a Phase 1 of the Radio Occultation (RO) Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) to assess constellation concepts for Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) RO capabilities, as the set of six COSMIC-2 satellites reach…
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Announcement
NESDIS Scientist to Receive NOAA’s Prestigious David S. Johnson Award
Chris Slocum, a research scientist with NOAA NESDIS’ Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR), has been selected as the 2025 winner of NOAA’s David S. Johnson Award.
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Announcement
NASA Awards Delivery Order for NOAA’s Space Weather Program
NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has awarded a delivery order to BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems Inc. of Boulder, Colorado, to build spacecraft for the Lagrange 1 Series project as a part of NOAA…
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Earth from Orbit
NOAA Satellites Track Powerful Atmospheric Rivers Impacting the West Coast
Since Jan. 31, NOAA satellites have been closely monitoring a series of strong atmospheric rivers bringing heavy rain and mountain snow from central California to the Pacific Northwest, the Sierra, southern Cascades, and northern Rocky mountains.
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Satellite Snapshots
GOES East Tracking A23a – The World’s Largest Iceberg
On Jan. 22, 2025, NOAA’s GOES East satellite captured imagery of the world’s largest current iceberg, A23a, slowly drifting northeastward in the Southern Ocean.
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