A new weather satellite, launched Tuesday, will provide our most sophisticated and sharpest look yet at Earth’s Western Hemisphere. GOES-18 can help weather forecasters improve their tracking of ...

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The burgeoning space industry and the technologies society increasingly relies on – electric grids, aviation and telecommunications – are all vulnerable to the same threat: space weather. Space ...

The school-bus-size satellite, known as "GOES-R," will be in a "geosynchronous" orbit, meaning it will hover in the same spot above the Earth about 22,000 miles above the equator. It will move as ...

The Department of Defense's announcement that it would end a weather-data sharing program surprised some climate watchdogs ...

The GOES-R satellite launched on Nov. 19. It'll enter orbit and sit 22,000 miles above the Americas, monitoring weather on the planet — and in space.

A new weather satellite will monitor both Earth and space-based weather. The GOES-U mission will gauge storm severity on Earth and track solar storms.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket just launched an advanced European weather satellite and aced its landing on a ship at sea. The ...

It just happened to be Himawari-8, an Earth-facing weather satellite. Himawari-8 is a geostationary satellite that, starting in 2015, has been regularly imaging Earth in visible and infrared ...

With Florida already into hurricane season, a weather satellite that will give scientists a new set of eyes on developing storms is set to liftoff Tuesday from Kennedy Space Center. NOAA's GOES-U ...

An image of the Earth from the GOES 16 weather satellite on April 22, 2024 (CIRA/NOAA) Weather satellite images are vital to modern-day forecasting. They’ve helped the science of meteorology ...

A new weather satellite, launched Tuesday, will provide our most sophisticated and sharpest look yet at Earth’s Western Hemisphere. GOES-18 can help weather forecasters improve their tracking of ...