Advances in U.S. Weather Satellites: From GOES to GeoXO | NASA Goddard

Advances in U.S. Weather Satellites: From GOES to GeoXO | NASA Goddard

When NOAA’s GOES-U satellite is launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, it will be the final satellite in National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) GOES-R series satellite program and bridge to another future age of advanced satellite technology. For nearly 50 years, NOAA and NASA have partnered to develop and advance NOAA’s geostationary satellites as part of "the most sophisticated weather-observing, environmental monitoring, and space weather monitoring satellite system in the world."

Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)

The first GOES satellite, GOES-1 (SMS-3), was launched in October 1975. As groundbreaking as it was, it had limited capabilities and viewed Earth only about ten percent of the time. Each generation since the launch of GOES-1 has improved significantly, bringing with new capabilities and instruments. The most recent, and last generation is the GOES-R series that first launched in 2016 with GOES-R or GOES-16. This series came with new instruments such as the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) and the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI). GOES-U, the final satellite of the series, also has the Compact Coronagraph-1 (CCOR-1) to monitor the Sun’s corona for space weather forecasts.

After GOES-U launches, its successor will be a series called Geostationary Extended Observations, or GeoXO. The first satellite in the series is expected to launch in the early 2030s. GeoXO will continue NOAA’s five decades of critical Earth-observing data with new instruments onboard. 

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and NOAA

Producer: Elizabeth C. Wilk (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)

Technical support:Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.)

Public affairs officers: Michelle Smith (NOAA) and John Leslie (NOAA)

Narrator: John Bateman (NOAA)

Writer: John Bateman (NOAA)

Interviewees:

Pam Sullivan (NOAA)

Ken Graham (NOAA)

Visualizer: Cindy Starr (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)

Duration: 8 minutes

Release Date: June 20, 2024

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