THE GEOSTATIONARY OPERATION. AN ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE LAUNCHED BY NOAH IN MARCH CALLED GOES 18 HAS OFFICIALLY ENTERED SERVICE AS GOES WAS. IT JOINS A SISTER SATELLITE KNOWN AS GOES EAST IN ORBIT ...

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 ...

Credit: NOAA DENVER – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared the newest satellite in its geostationary fleet, GOES-18, operational Jan. 4 and designated it GOES West.

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.

GOES-18 has been observing the sun since June 24 ... of the kind of data that it will be able to collect. NOAA says the satellite should begin its operational role in early 2023 when it will ...

GOES-18 is currently NOAA’s operational GOES West satellite. GOES-19 was launched on June 25, 2024, as the latest and final satellite in the GOES-R Series. After post-launch testing of its ...

NOAA’S NEWEST GOES SATELLITE LAUNCHING DURING BUSY SEVERE ... The previous GOES launch happened with GOES-18 in 2022. Showers and thunderstorms driven by sea breezes around Florida will affect ...

The footage was captured by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-18 (GOES-18), which launched to orbit from Cape ...

The satellite will replace GOES-16, the former GOES East satellite launched in 2016, and work in tandem with GOES-18, also called GOES West. Meanwhile, the GOES-16 satellite will essentially ...