At 5:04 PM local time (2104 UTC) on 1 July 2025, the newest member of the geostationary ring was launched into orbit. The MTG-I3 satellite (to be renamed Meteosat 13 upon commissioning) represents a first for EUMETSAT: a hyperspectral sounder in geostationary orbit. While EUMETSAT has long supported hyperspectral sounders... Read More
The GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) have been around since 1975, although there were earlier non-operational versions operated by NASA, such as ATS, which carried UW/Madison’s Verner Suomi‘s Spin-Scan Cloudcover Camera. The ATS was followed by the SMS, which carried an early version of the VISSR.To prepare for the 50th anniversary of GOES,... Read More
Scientists and programmers at SSEC/CIMSS have been working with Hydra within McIDAS-V to augment its functionality, enabling it to view data from the Cross-Track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) on JPSS Satellites (Suomi-NPP, NOAA-20 and NOAA-21). How is this functionality accessed? After downloading the McIDAS-V package, and opening it, a user will... Read More
The above wiki image is credited to : “Mark Wade 2003 (text) NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team 2006-09-01 (photo) Borrow-188 and Soumya-8974 (compilation) – This file was derived from: CCAFS.jpg.All the GOES launches have been from Cape Canaveral (FL), but the launch pads used have varied over the decades.... Read More
