{"id":26378,"date":"2017-12-18T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=26378"},"modified":"2017-12-18T23:28:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T23:28:41","slug":"goes-16-is-now-the-operational-goes-east-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/26378","title":{"rendered":"GOES-16 is now the operational GOES-East satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/12\/G16_2102_18December_Operational_2017step_through_bands.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/12\/G16_2102_18December_Operational_2017step_through_bands.gif\" alt=\"All 16 Bands from GOES-16 at 2102 UTC on 18 December 2017 [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">All 16 Bands from GOES-16 at 2102 UTC on 18 December 2017 [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16, which has been sending data from the GOES-East position <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/26333\">since 14 December<\/a>, became the operational GOES-East satellite at 2100 UTC on 18 December, succeeding GOES-13 [which itself became <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/5116\">GOES-East, succeeding GOES-12<\/a>, in April 2010; (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/misc\/030418\/030418.html\">this post<\/a>, from April 2003, is the first one with GOES-12 as the operational GOES-East, it took over for GOES-8 that month!) ].\u00a0 The animation above shows all 16 Bands of the first operational CONUS image from GOES-16.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-16, which has been sending data from the GOES-East position since 14 December, became the operational GOES-East satellite at 2100 UTC on 18 December, succeeding GOES-13 [which itself became GOES-East, succeeding GOES-12, in April 2010; (this post, from April 2003, is the first one with GOES-12 as the operational GOES-East, it took over for GOES-8 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":26384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-interpretation","category-goes-16"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26378","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26378"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26409,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26378\/revisions\/26409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}