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 ...

The final satellite in NOAA's GOES-R weather satellite series has a new place in orbit … and a new name. The GOES-19 weather satellite, which launched into orbit in June 2024, has officially taken the ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) – Meteorologists use many tools to help analyze weather data and develop a forecast. One of those tools is weather satellites, and there’s a familiar yet new one orbiting our planet that ...

Near real-time preliminary data from NOAA's first Compact Coronagraph (CCOR-1), a powerful solar telescope onboard the GOES-19 satellite, are now publicly accessible. GOES-19, launched in June 2024, ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Meteorologists and other atmospheric scientists in the western hemisphere are getting a new and advanced look at the earth after Wednesday’s GOES-19 preliminary images. NOAA’s ...

For 50 years , NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) have kept a constant vigil over the Western Hemisphere. These sentinels in the sky provide essential information to ...

Sixty-five years ago today, the first successful weather satellite, TIROS-1, was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. TIROS-1 was an attempt to see if we Earthlings could learn anything useful from ...

NASA and NOAA launched a new weather satellite back in November of 2016 called GOES-R. That craft is now online and sending back images, and it's got a new (official) name. The newest and most ...

Canada’s Rogers Communications launched Rogers Satellite on Tuesday, a direct satellite-to-mobile service, allowing users to ...

Canadian mobile operator Rogers Communications has launched its satellite-to-mobile service in Canada. The telco announced ...