GOES-T Overview and Beauty Shots

  • Released Thursday, February 3, 2022
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GOES-T Overview and Upcoming Launch

Music: "Spacey Wave," by JC Lemay [SACEM]; Koka; Universal Production Music

Additional footage provided by Lockheed Martin

NOAA’s GOES-T is the third satellite in the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) – R Series, the Western Hemisphere’s most sophisticated weather observing and environmental monitoring system.

The GOES-R Series provides advanced imagery and atmospheric measurements, real-time mapping of lightning activity, and space weather monitoring. After GOES-T launches, it will be renamed GOES-18 once it reaches geostationary orbit. Following a successful on-orbit checkout of its instruments and systems, NOAA plans to put GOES-T immediately into operational service, replacing GOES-17 as GOES West. GOES-18 will work in tandem with GOES-16, NOAA’s operational GOES East satellite. Together, GOES-16 and GOES-18 will watch over more than half the globe – from the west coast of Africa to New Zealand. GOES-17 will become an on-orbit spare.

GOES-T Beauty Shot

Beauty shot of GOES-T

Beauty shot of GOES-T

This animation depicts the areas of the Earth viewed by GOES-East and GOES-West from their vantage point 22,236 miles above the equator.

GOES Wildire Detection and Monitoring

Music:

“Enduring Faith,” by Frederik Wiedmann [BMI]; Icon Trailer Music; Universal Production Music

Additional GOES-T Footage Courtesy of:

Lockheed Martin

Additional Wildfire Footage:

CALFIRE_Official/flickr under CC BY-NC 2.0

National Interagency Fire Center

CALFIRE_Official/Alaska Fire Service/flickr

For More Information

See https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/next-generation/goes-t-launch

Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and NOAA/NESDIS. Additional footage from Lockheed Martin, CALFIRE_Official/flickr, CALFIRE_Official/Alaska Fire Service, and the National Interagency Fire Center.

This page was originally published on Thursday, February 3, 2022.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:37 PM EDT.