50 Years of GOES

  • Released Monday, January 13, 2025
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“Realms of the Sky” by Frederik Helmut Wiedmann [GMR]; Icon Trailer Music; Universal Production Music

“Exoplanet” by Jeff Penny [ASCAP]; Emperia Musicworks; Universal Production Music

“Solo Trip” by Nicholas Smith [PRS]; Ideal.e; Universal Production Music

“Reaching the Skies” by Ben Hicks [ASCAP]; Emperia Musicworks; Universal Production Music

“Aetherion” by Lincoln Dale Davis [BMI]; Emperia Musicworks; Universal Production Music

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In 2025, NOAA celebrates 50 years of its heralded Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite program, known as GOES. For five decades, NOAA and NASA have partnered to advance NOAA satellite observations from geostationary orbit. GOES are our sentinels in the sky: keeping constant watch for severe weather and environmental hazards on Earth and dangerous space weather. As NOAA celebrates the long legacy of the GOES, we continue to rely on these satellites for short-term forecasts of hazardous weather, detection and monitoring of environmental phenomena like wildfires, smoke, volcanic ash, dust storms and fog, and warnings of approaching space weather that can disrupt communication and navigation systems, disrupt power grids, damage satellites in space and expose astronauts to harmful radiation.

To learn more about the GOES program and its 50 year legacy, visit here.

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See https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/our-satellites/currently-flying/geostationary-satellites

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This page was originally published on Monday, January 13, 2025.
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