{"id":46523,"date":"2022-06-16T11:27:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T11:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=46523"},"modified":"2024-02-22T21:34:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T21:34:34","slug":"goes-2-launch-anniversary-goes-timelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/46523","title":{"rendered":"GOES-2 Launch Anniversary; GOES Timelines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With the help of NASA<\/a>, private industry and others, NOAA’s GOES-2<\/a> (as GOES-B<\/a>) was launched<\/a> on June 16, 1977. Similar to SMS-1\/2<\/a> and GOES-1\/3<\/a>, there were 2 spectral bands: one visible and one longwave<\/a> infrared. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

GOES-2 Visible (left) and Infrared (right) spectral bands from June 16, 1978 over the Eastern portion of the U.S.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A still image with a map overlay<\/a> is also available to provide geo-referencing for the images in the above animation. Or a similar loop is also available with the map overlay<\/a> The images in the loop (mp4 |<\/a> animated gif<\/a>) were taken just one year after GOES-B was launched. https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/12\/Geostationary_MetSat_History_2023update.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An updated timeline of the GOES, from GOES-1 to GOES-U. Figure credit: GOES-R Program Office<\/a>. (Click to show larger image.)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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An updated timeline of the U.S. geo imaging, from ATS\/SMS to GOES-U. Figure credit: GOES-R Program Office<\/a>. (Click to show larger image.)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The timelines show the periods when the satellites were operational. Yet, there were other times when they might have been operating. For example, when an on-orbit spacecraft comes out of storage once a year, often in August, for a routine check-out of several weeks. Another example was GOES-14, as it provided over 5 months of 1 min data (SRSOR) data to better prepare for the meso-scale sectors on the ABI. These campaigns were in 2012<\/a>, 2013<\/a>, 2014<\/a>, 2015<\/a> and 2016<\/a>. Some of these times were: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Start Date<\/strong><\/td>End Date<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
16-Aug-2012<\/td>31-Oct-2012<\/td><\/tr>
13-Aug-2013<\/td>28-Aug-2013<\/td><\/tr>
08-May-2014<\/td>25-May-2014<\/td><\/tr>
14-Aug-2014<\/td>28-Aug-2014<\/td><\/tr>
18-May-2015<\/td>11-Jun-2015<\/td><\/tr>
10-Aug-2015<\/td>28-Aug-2015<\/td><\/tr>
01-Feb-2016<\/td>25-Feb-2016<\/td><\/tr>
18-Apr-2016<\/td>15-May-2016<\/td><\/tr>
09-Aug-2016<\/td>29-Aug-2016<\/td><\/tr>
01-Aug-2017<\/td>11-Aug-2017<\/td><\/tr>
08-Aug-2018<\/td>17-Aug-2018<\/td><\/tr>
31-Jul-2019<\/td>13-Aug-2019<\/td><\/tr>
11-Aug-2020<\/td>21-Aug-2020<\/td><\/tr>
11-Aug-2021<\/td>19-Aug-2021<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
GOES-14 <\/strong>times (as start\/end pairs) of being operated, though not operational. All dates are approximate.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In addition, GOES-15<\/strong> was operated several times to supplement GOES-17 operations: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Start Date<\/strong><\/td>End Date<\/td><\/tr>
20-May-2018<\/td>09-March-2020<\/td><\/tr>
04-Aug-2020<\/td>04-Sep-2020<\/td><\/tr>
04-Feb-2021<\/td>19-Feb-2021<\/td><\/tr>
02-Aug-2021<\/td>05-Nov-2021<\/td><\/tr>
17-Feb-2022<\/td>18-April-2022<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
GOES-15 <\/strong>times (as start\/end pairs) of being operated, though not operational. All dates are approximate.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The second timeline above includes not only the U.S. GOES imagers, but also their precursors: ATS-1<\/a>, 3<\/a> (including the Spin Scan Cloud Cameras<\/a>) and 6<\/a> (with the 2-channel GVHRR; including an infrared band<\/a>) and SMS-1\/2. The GOES-R Program Office also has a more simple GOES timeline<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

UW\/SSEC has an interactive timeline<\/a> (opens in new tab) that covers more satellites. The SSEC library (Schwerdtfeger<\/a>) also has more information on the Spin-Scan Cloud Cameras<\/a> on ATS-1\/3. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Snapshot of the UW\/SSEC timeline, the orange line relates to the geostationary orbit. (Click to better show image.)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A GOES-2 Full Disk image from June 16, 1978. The visible band is shown, along with cold IR values. (Click to show larger image.)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The above image shows a color-coded transparency for cold clouds over the gray-scale visible image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After GOES-U, NOAA is planning on the next generation U.S. geostationary imager as part of the Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO<\/a>) program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

H\/T<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to the many who made the GOES (and the precursors) possible. McIDAS-X<\/a> software was used in generating these satellite images. The data (and many dates) was accessed by the UW\/SSEC Data Services<\/a>. More about GOES-16 and GOES-17<\/a> and GOES-18<\/a> (preliminary, non-operational<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below are older versions of the timelines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A timeline of the GOES, from GOES-1 to GOES-U. Figure credit: GOES-R Program Office<\/a>. (Click to show larger image.)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A timeline of the U.S. geo imaging, from ATS\/SMS to GOES-U. Figure credit: GOES-R Program Office<\/a>. (Click to show larger image.)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the help of NASA, private industry and others, NOAA’s GOES-2 (as GOES-B) was launched on June 16, 1977. Similar to SMS-1\/2 and GOES-1\/3, there were 2 spectral bands: one visible and one longwave infrared. A still image with a map overlay is also available to provide geo-referencing for the images in the above animation. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":46662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,65,14,18,19,11,40,43,74,80,114,133,69,134,135,103,54,61,136,34,41,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-interpretation","category-goes-1","category-goes-10","category-goes-11","category-goes-12","category-goes-13","category-goes-14","category-goes-15","category-goes-16","category-goes-17","category-goes-18","category-goes-2","category-goes-3","category-goes-4","category-goes-5","category-goes-6","category-goes-7","category-goes-8","category-goes-9","category-goes-r","category-historical","category-sms-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46523","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46523"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57323,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46523\/revisions\/57323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}