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Category: GOES-3

NOAA’s Birthday

NOAA was formed on October 3, 1970. To commemorate this date, a few GOES related figures. GOES has been around since 1975, although there were earlier non-operational versions operated by NASA, such as ATS.H/TThese GOES-19 ABI are early images (preliminary and non-operational), beta stage. Both McIDAS-X and geo2grid software was used in... Read More

GOES Launch Pad Listing over the Decades

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

CIMSS Anniversary

CIMSS (Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies) anniversary is July 14, as it was established in 1980. From “about CIMSS: “… is a Cooperative Institute formed through a Memorandum of Understanding between the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1980. CIMSS operates as an institute within the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC)”.The... Read More