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Category: General interpretation

Update on GOES-13

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

GOES-14 begins service as GOES-East

At 10:00 UTC on 23 May, GOES-14 imagery started flowing to AWIPS as the GOES-East satellite (as seen in the comparison between the 09:30 and 10:10 UTC IR images above). Work continues on evaluating the status of GOES-13. GOES-14 remains in geostationary orbit at 105.5 West longitude, and GVAR data... Read More

GOES-13 outage

GOES-13 suffered an anomaly overnight: the satellite is no longer pointed towards the Earth for as yet unknown reasons. The anomaly started at 03:40 UTC on 22 May, and at 04:29 UTC, GOES-15 (GOES-West) began a 30-minute full disk scan schedule.Successive images from just before the anomaly (above), at nominal... Read More