Today at 16:55 UTC, NOAA decommissioned NOAA-19, the most recently launched of the remaining legacy NOAA POES spacecraft. NOAA-19 launched on February 6th, 2009 and become operational on June 2nd, 2009. For the last 16 years, NOAA-19 has provided routine weather observations of the entire globe from low-earth orbit.The AVHRR... Read More