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![GOES-T Launch Success](/s3/2022-12/GOES-TLaunchSuccess.jpg)
NOAA’s GOES-T, the third in a series of four advanced geostationary weather satellites, blasted into orbit aboard a United…
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![Violent Storms Tear Through the South](/s3/2023-03/2023_03_03-_ViolentStormsTearThroughSouth_NO_TEXT.png)
Severe storms that began rolling through the southern U.S. on Friday, March 24, 2023 left a path of devastation from Texas…
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![Earth from Orbit: Every Day is Earth Day for NOAA Satellites](/s3/2021-06/2021_04_22_EarthDay_Still1.png)
To celebrate Earth Day, we are sharing stunning views of our beautiful planet, captured by NOAA satellites. Since 1970, NOAA…
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![GOES Eclipse Schedule](https://nesdis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/webp_large/s3/2023-05/NOAA-logo_16x9_NoBorder.png.webp?itok=qg3l7mLt)
GOES satellites encounter two periods during the year in which they are in Earth's shadow.
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![COSMIC-2 Spacecraft](https://nesdis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/webp_large/s3/2023-05/NOAA-logo_16x9_NoBorder.png.webp?itok=qg3l7mLt)
Credit: COSMIC-2 in the cleanroom before launch. (SSTL)Satellite Components Each COSMIC-2 satellite, which is approximately…
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![NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Environmental Satellite Mission](/s3/migrated/GOESRSeriesArtistsRendering.jpg)
NASA has selected United Launch Services LLC (ULS) of Centennial, Colorado, to provide launch services for the…
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![Two Orbits, One Mission: NOAA Satellites Work Together to Provide Critical Data for Weather Forecasts](https://nesdis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/webp_large/s3/2023-05/NOAA-logo_16x9_NoBorder.png.webp?itok=qg3l7mLt)
Friday, June 26, 2020 NOAA maintains a fleet of satellites to monitor Earth’s weather, environment and climate. These…
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![NOAA Satellites Monitoring Massive Wildfires and Two Cyclones](/s3/migrated/20200819000000_smokycyclones_cropped.gif)
On Aug. 19, 2020, NOAA’s GOES-West satellite captured the above GeoColor image loop of massive wildfire smoke plumes…
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![Category 5 Hurricane Otis Devastates Acapulco, Mexico](/s3/2023-10/hurricane-otis-october-25-2023.png)
On Wednesday, Oct. 25, Hurricane Otis made landfall near Acapulco, on Mexico’s southern Pacific coast, at 1:25 a.m. CDT as a…
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![GOES East Offers Spectacular View of July 19 Derecho](https://nesdis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/webp_large/s3/2023-05/NOAA-logo_16x9_NoBorder.png.webp?itok=qg3l7mLt)
GOES East captured imagery of a derecho that tore through the north-central Plains on July 19, 2017.
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![Fires Dot the Landscape in Angola's Dry Season](/s3/2021-07/2045v1_20170612-SVI421.jpeg)
The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) aboard the NOAA/NASA Suomi NPP satellite captured this color-enhanced…
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![GOES-R: Coming to an orbit 22,240 miles from you!](/s3/2021-08/trailer%20thumb.jpg)
The GOES-R series satellites will provide continuous weather monitoring. The new generation GOES-R satellites will carry…
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![Earth from Orbit: 2021 Hurricane Season Has Begun](/s3/2021-07/2021_06_03_HurricaneSeasonHasBegun_TITLE_STILL%20%281%29.png)
The 2021 hurricane season is officially underway. June 1 marked the beginning of the Atlantic hurricane season.
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![Severe Storms Rock the Northeastern U.S.](/s3/migrated/20180516-Meteotsunami.png)
GOES East captured this image of the severe thunderstorms that struck the Northeastern U.S. on May 15, 2018. The storms…
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![NOAA announces post-launch plans for GOES-T satellite](/s3/migrated/GOESR-Earth.png)
NOAA’s GOES-T will replace GOES-17 in the GOES West position, following a successful launch and checkout period, top NOAA…