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Archive: Tue Aug 2025

Goodnight, NOAA-15

At 15:28 UTC today, NOAA decommissioned the final remaining legacy POES satellite, NOAA-15. The spacecraft was launched on May 13, 1998, and entered full operations on December 15th of that same year. Amazingly, that equates to 27 years of observations from low-earth orbit; for a spacecraft with an original mission... Read More