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So, for a little over two years now, I have been receiving, directly, GOES 16,17, and Himawari 8, along with various APT satellites like Meteor M2 and NOAA 15,18, and 19. I have stored about 3.8 Terrabytes of data from these sats, and, if you’ve been following along on my website, I a constantly trying … Delve Deeper “Post Processing of received imagery.” »
GOES-West Transition Plan – Swap of GOES-17/18 GOES-17 ABI has been operating with a Loop Heat Pipe (LHP) Anomaly for its entire lifetime which results in degraded imagery during four warm periods of each year. Recent anomalies have caused further challenges in regulating the ABI Focal Plane Module (FPM) temperatures, resulting in additional warming and … Delve Deeper “GOES-T/18 Transition to Operations” »
Christmas in World War II In 1943, “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” joined “White Christmas” to become one of America’s most popular homegrown holiday songs. Recorded in a rich baritone by Bing Crosby, “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” shot to the top ten of the record charts (as “White Christmas” had for Crosby the previous … Delve Deeper “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” »
Countdown to Launch: March 1st, 2022 NOAA’s GOES-T is set for liftoff on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The two-hour launch window opens at 4:38 p.m. EST. NOAA and NASA are now targeting March 1, 2022, as the new launch date for NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite T … Delve Deeper “GOES T Launch bumped to March 1, 2022” »
After a truck and Super Galaxy plane ride from Colorado to Florida on November 9th, the GOES T Shipping container was opened for inspection at the Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Florida. The newest weather satellite was removed and orientated vertically and set up on the stand for more tests, inspections, and later fueling and … Delve Deeper “GOES-T in Florida and ULA Rocket arrive.” »
Updated 11/11/2021Shipping a satellite is no small feat. GOES-T is the size of a small school bus and weighs over 6,000 pounds! The spacecraft team at Lockheed Martin in Littleton, Colorado, where GOES-T was built, carefully packed the satellite in a special shipping container that protected its sensitive instruments and functioned as a miniature cleanroom … Delve Deeper “GOES-T: Road to Launch” »
Updated 11-18-2021 NOAA and NASA are now targeting March 1, 2022, as the new launch date for NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite T (GOES-T) mission. The launch was recently scheduled for February 16, 2022. However, shifts in launch dates for missions scheduled ahead of GOES-T prompted NASA, NOAA, and United Launch Alliance (ULA) to coordinate … Delve Deeper “GOES-T’s launch has been delayed to March 1, 2022.” »
GOES 15 reactivated for testing and backup coverage for GOES 17 during Hurricane and Cyclone season. GOES 15 was launched atop a Delta IV-M+(4,2) rocket flying from Space Launch Complex 37B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The launch occurred at 23:57 GMT on 4 March 2010, forty minutes into a sixty-minute launch window. … Delve Deeper “GOES 15 reactivated” »
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced plans on June 25, 2021, to move its geostationary weather satellite, which is scheduled to launch in December, into an operational role “as soon as possible.” This advances the previous GOES-T flyout and operational status schedule by a whopping 4 years. No word as of yet for GOES … Delve Deeper “NOAA to replace GOES17 satellite with GOES T ahead of schedule” »
What do Quaker Oats and Satellite Reception have to do with each other? Well, I have always said where there’s a will, there’s a way. Over on saveitforparts youtube channel, savitforparts has used his good old American ingenuity to build a GOES receiver with a free DirecTV dish, some cardboard and (a lot of) foil … Delve Deeper “What do Quaker Oats and Satellite Reception have to do with each other?” »
