Hurricane forecasting depends heavily on government-funded satellites, allowing the communities in their path to prepare and evacuate. Those satellites, monitored and maintained by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 21, 2017
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Ariane 5 has delivered two telecom satellites, SGDC and Koreasat-7, into their planned orbits.
Space Exploration
May 5, 2017
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GOES-R, the first of NOAA's highly advanced geostationary weather satellites, lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 6:42 p.m. EST today. The satellite will boost the nation's weather observation network and NOAA's prediction ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 6, 2016
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The microsatellite was developed by Tohoku University, Hokkaido University, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) of the Republic of the Philippines and the University of the Philippines Diliman under the DOST-funded ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 7, 2016
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The road from construction in a clean room to sitting atop a rocket in just six months is a busy one. Watch here to learn more about how GOES-R will make the journey. Lockheed Martin, the prime spacecraft developer, will ...
Space Exploration
Apr 14, 2016
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NOAA's GOES-West satellite captured the birth of Tropical Cyclone Niko in the Southern Pacific Ocean near French Polynesia.
Earth Sciences
Jan 21, 2015
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A team of technicians and engineers at Lockheed Martin has successfully mated together the large system and propulsion modules of the first GOES-R series weather satellite at the company's Space Systems facilities near Denver, ...
Space Exploration
Sep 19, 2014
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NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite or GOES-West satellite spotted smoke over the U.S. Mid-West from dozens of fires raging in Canada's Northwestern Territories.
Earth Sciences
Jul 10, 2014
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Tropical Storm Douglas is on a weakening trend, according to the National Hurricane Center, and satellite imagery showed that the storm appeared more elongated on July 3.
Earth Sciences
Jul 3, 2014
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Strong northwesterly wind shear took its toll on Tropical Storm Elida, weakening it to a remnant low early on July 2. In infrared satellite imagery from NOAA's GOES-West satellite, Elida appeared to be a tight swirl of low ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 2, 2014
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