{"id":25810,"date":"2017-10-25T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=25810"},"modified":"2021-10-25T19:38:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T19:38:16","slug":"42-year-anniversary-of-the-goes-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/25810","title":{"rendered":"Anniversary of the GOES program"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HappyBirthday?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HappyBirthday<\/a> to GOES! The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NOAASatellites?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NOAASatellites<\/a> geostationary satellite network was born <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OTD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OTD<\/a> in 1975 with the launch of GOES 1. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoingGoingGone?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GoingGoingGone<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/09sSASjBOJ\">pic.twitter.com\/09sSASjBOJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NASA History Office (@NASAhistory) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASAhistory\/status\/919895708735541248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The first GOES-1 Visible (0.65 \u00b5m) image was transmitted at 1645 UTC on 25 October 1975 <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/19751025_1645utc_goes1_visible.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/19751025_1645utc_goes1_visible.jpg\" alt=\"GOES-1 Visible image at 1645 UTC on 25 October 1975 [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"807\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-1 Visible<em> (0.65<\/em> <em>\u00b5m)<\/em> image at 1645 UTC on 25 October 1975 [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Sample <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GOES_1\">GOES-1<\/a><\/strong> Visible images are shown below (courtesy of Tim Schmit, NOAA\/NESDIS\/<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/aspb\/\">ASPB<\/a><\/strong> and the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/datacenter\/dcmain.html\">SSEC Data Center<\/a><\/strong>), after the satellite had been positioned over the Indian Ocean to support the Global Atmospheric Research Program.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/fd\/1970s\/FD_GOES-1_VIS_MED_BIG_NOMAP_10-Apr-1979_0700_UTC_4by4.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/fd\/1970s\/FD_GOES-1_VIS_MED_BIG_NOMAP_10-Apr-1979_0700_UTC_4by4.JPG\" alt=\"GOES-1 Visible image, 0700 UTC on 10 April 1979 [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-1 Visible <em>(0.65 \u00b5m)<\/em> image, 0700 UTC on 10 April 1979 [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/10\/FD_GOES-1_VIS_MED_NOMAP_01-Jan-1979_0930_UTC.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/10\/FD_GOES-1_VIS_MED_NOMAP_01-Jan-1979_0930_UTC.JPG\" alt=\"GOES-1 Visible (0.65 \u00b5m) image, 0930 UTC on 01 January 1979 [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-1 Visible <em>(0.65 \u00b5m)<\/em> image, 0930 UTC on 01 January 1979 [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#HappyBirthday to GOES! The @NOAASatellites geostationary satellite network was born #OTD in 1975 with the launch of GOES 1. #GoingGoingGone pic.twitter.com\/09sSASjBOJ \u2014 NASA History Office (@NASAhistory) October 16, 2017 The first GOES-1 Visible (0.65 \u00b5m) image was transmitted at 1645 UTC on 25 October 1975 (below). Sample GOES-1 Visible images are shown below (courtesy of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-1","category-historical"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25810"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42978,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25810\/revisions\/42978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}