UPDATED 09-30-2023My contact “Georgi”, an engineer at Роскосмос, sent me the latest details on the Meteor M No. 2-4 Launch – the list of Russian Soyuz Launches now shows Meteor M2-4 set to launch December 26, 2023 (Day 360 UTC Time 05:43:xx.xxx) – Meteor-M №2-4, multiple small satellites as additional payloads – Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat-M (15000/142-03) – […]
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Nothing lasts forever…. Update 09/27/2023 The AVHRR/3 sensor on board NOAA 15 has repeatedly seized, and no other attempts will be made to recover the instrument. However, the spacecraft itself remains healthy and other subsystems remain active. Therefore, there is no plan for decommissioning the spacecraft at this time. It is important to note that […]
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After eighteen years in the making and billions of dollars spent, a fourth and final weather satellite from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations, meant to protect the United States nears its final stage before launch. For the first time, GOES-U will be launched aboard a SPACE X Falcon Heavy. The total cost for NASA […]
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Goestools for Windows What’s in a name? -Wingoes perhaps? Great news for those who may be hesitant to take the plunge into LINUX or using a Raspberry PI or equivalent SBC, Jamie Vital, who has written some very cool software for satellite imagery display, has ported the goestools software written by Pieter Nordhuis to run […]
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UPDATE 06-24-2023 METEOR M-2-3 (Роскосмос Метеоре-М № 2-3) Launch Successful Receiving Meteor M2-3 I have posted my receiving information for Meteor М № 2-3 Here https://usradioguy.com/meteor-m2-3/ The Soyuz-2.1b rocket has been fully integrated with its payload and will launch 43 spacecraft into orbit: the main satellite is the Meteor-M No. 2-3 meteorological satellite and the […]
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The Importance of Monitoring Space Weather The sun is a dynamic and active star, and its activity can significantly impact Earth. The sun’s atmosphere is made up of hot, ionized plasma, and the sun’s magnetic field is constantly changing. These changes can lead to the formation of solar storms, which are large eruptions of plasma […]
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On April 21, 2023, a coronal mass ejection (CME) occurred on the sun, resulting in the emission of a high-speed burst of plasma that traveled towards Earth at a velocity of approximately two million miles per hour. This event triggered a severe geomagnetic storm that attained level 4 out of 5 on NOAA’s space weather […]
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April 14th, 2023 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has issued a call for proposals for research and development of microwave weather sensors, ground systems, and technology to reduce interference caused by 5G networks. This announcement was made in three Broad Agency Announcements on April 13, 2023, which revealed some of the priorities of […]
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Updated April 14th, 2023 On 11 January 2007, China conducted an anti-satellite missile test. A China weather satellite—the FY-1C polar-orbiting satellite of the Fengyun series, at an altitude of 865 kilometers (537 mi), with a mass of 750 kilograms (1,650 lb) —was destroyed by a kinetic kill vehicle traveling at a speed of 8 km/s (18,000 mph) in the opposite direction. A Head-On Engagement attack like this has […]
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