The service is crafting a plan to replace its legacy weather capability, and WSF-M and its companion EWS program are a bridge ...

Read about Space Operations Command’s formal acceptance of the ML-1A WSF-M environmental monitoring satellite that launched ...

The final satellite in NOAA's GOES-R weather satellite series has a new place in orbit … and a new name.

FARGO — This month marks the 65th anniversary of the launch of the first weather satellite, TIROS-1. TIROS stands for ...

Most U.S. weather data is still housed at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, but it also faces a proposed ...

GOES-18 is part of a network of satellites that enable meteorologists to accurately monitor and forecast local weather events that impact public safety, among them thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes ...

"The future series is called GeoXO, or Geostationary Extended Observations, launching in 2032. We're going to go from two spacecraft to three, and add some new instrumentation and also make some ...

ESA's Arctic Weather Satellite produces detailed data that could soon boost forecasts - especially in remote regions like the Arctic.

The final satellite in NOAA's GOES-R weather satellite series has a new place in orbit … and a new name. The GOES-19 weather satellite, which launched into orbit in June 2024, has officially ...

It will also monitor severe weather, atmospheric rivers, wildfires, volcanic eruptions and other environmental events. The satellite is also equipped with space weather instruments to monitor the sun.

GOES-19 satellite, which became operational Tuesday, covers the GOES East orbit 22,236 miles above Earth's equator. It is the final piece of an advanced series of weather satellites to provide ...