The GOES-12 Sounder has sent its last data, ending more than 12 years of service. The GOES-12 Sounder was turned off at 1100 UTC on 13 August. GOES-12 was launched on July 23, 2001, and GOES-12 transmitted data from 16 August 2001 – 7 January 2002, and then more or... Read More
GOES-13 became the operational GOES-East satellite once again at 15:45 UTC on 10 June 2013 (following recovery from an anomaly on 22 May) — the multi-panel image above shows all 19 bands of the GOES-13 Sounder along with all 5 bands of the GOES-13 Imager... Read More
Special update: GOES-13 is scheduled to become the operational GOES-East on June 6, 2013 at approximately 1545 UTC. Link.Special update #2:GOES-13 will become the operational GOES-East Satellite no sooner than Monday 10 June 2013 Link.GOES-13 will become operational GOES-East at approximately 1545 UTC on Monday June 10. Link.(Update on the... Read More
In normal or “Routine” operations, GOES Imagery (from both GOES-East and GOES-West) follows a schedule that includes scans of CONUS (Continental US) nominally every 15 minutes.For GOES-East, these are images at :02, :15, :32 and :45 after the hour. The :02 and :32 images are CONUS only: the southern boundary is... Read More
