The new generation GOES-R satellites will carry significant improvements and technology innovation on board. GOES-R will be able to deliver a full globe scan in only 5 minutes, compared to the 25 minutes needed for the same task with the current GOES satellites. GOES-R's lightning mapper instrument is expected to improve warning lead time for severe storms and tornadoes by 50%. This without a doubt will help predict severe weather in advance and save more lives. This reel is a compilation of finished productions about the GOES-R mission as well as supporting materials such as animations, visualizations, and still images.Spacecraft Animations ||

Music: “Enduring Faith,” by Frederik Wiedmann [BMI]; Icon Trailer Music; Universal Production MusicAdditional GOES-T Footage Courtesy of:Lockheed MartinAdditional Wildfire Footage:CALFIRE_Official/flickr under CC BY-NC 2.0National Interagency Fire CenterCALFIRE_Official/Alaska Fire Service/flickr || 14108_WildfireDetectionandMonitoring_FINAL.03921_print.jpg (1024x576) [140.5 KB] || 14108_WildfireDetectionandMonitoring_FINAL.03921_searchweb.png (320x180) [95.6 KB] || 14108_WildfireDetectionandMonitoring_FINAL.03921_thm.png (80x40) [6.5 KB] || 14108_WildfireDetectionandMonitoring_FINAL.mov (1920x1080) [4.8 GB] || 14108_WildfireDetectionandMonitoring_FINAL_720.mp4 (1280x720) [52.9 MB] || 14108_WildfireDetectionandMonitoring_FINAL_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [278.3 MB] || 14108_GOEST_WildfireDetectionandMonitoring_FINAL.mp4 (1920x1080) [142.4 MB] || 14108_GOEST_WildfireDetectionandMonitoring_FINAL_lowres.mp4 (1280x720) [60.4 MB] || 14108_WildfireDetectionandMonitoring_FINAL_720.webm (1280x720) [24.7 MB] || 14108_GOEST_WildfireDetectionandMonitoring_FINAL_UHD_YOUTUBE.mp4 (3840x2160) [905.9 MB] || 14108_GOEST_WildfireDetectionandMonitoring_FINAL.en_US.srt [5.1 KB] || 14108_GOEST_WildfireDetectionandMonitoring_FINAL.en_US.vtt [4.9 KB] ||

Revolutions in satellite capabilities and atmospheric models have resulted in dramatic improvements in hurricane forecasting in the last few decades. Complete transcript available.</p || Hurricanes_final_small.00450_print.jpg (1024x576) [143.7 KB] || Hurricanes_final_small.00450_searchweb.png (320x180) [100.9 KB] || Hurricanes_final_small.00450_web.png (320x180) [100.9 KB] || Hurricanes_final_small.00450_thm.png (80x40) [6.7 KB] || Hurricanes_final_small.mp4 (1920x1080) [697.2 MB] || Hurricanes_final_small.webm (1920x1080) [55.5 MB] || Hurricanes_final_medium.mp4 (3840x2160) [2.0 GB] || Hurricanes_new_beginning.en_US.srt [9.7 KB] || Hurricanes_new_beginning.en_US.vtt [9.6 KB] ||

When NOAA’s GOES-U satellite is launched in June of 2024, it will be the final satellite in a heralded NOAA 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.The first GOES satellite, GOES-1 (SMS-3), was launched in October of 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.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. To learn more about GeoXO and its new state-of-the-art instruments, follow this link. ||

The Hazardous Weather Testbed conducts research into forecasting techiques for predicting severe weather. Based in Norman, Oklahoma, this annual exercise brings together scientists and forecasters from around the country to advance the state of the art. This year, the project kept an eye on the future, too. The new GOES-R satellite is scheduled to take it's place in space in the next few years, and the new capabilities afforded by this advanced array of orbiting instruments will give ground based experts a whole new range of tools and capabilities. || HWT_for_NOAA_PR422_NESDIS_Tag_youtube_hq_print.jpg (1024x576) [130.4 KB] || HWT_for_NOAA_PR422_NESDIS_Tag_youtube_hq_searchweb.png (180x320) [102.0 KB] || HWT_for_NOAA_PR422_NESDIS_Tag_youtube_hq_thm.png (80x40) [7.1 KB] || HWT_for_NOAA_PR422_NESDIS_Tag_youtube_hq.webm (1280x720) [17.1 MB] || HWT_for_NOAA_H264_NESDIS_Tag.webm (1280x720) [16.9 MB] || HWT_for_NOAA_H264_NESDIS_Tag.mov (1280x720) [944.1 MB] || HWT_for_NOAA_PR422_NESDIS_Tag.mov (1280x720) [2.1 GB] || HWT_for_NOAA_PR422_NESDIS_Tag_youtube_hq.mov (1280x720) [432.1 MB] || HWT_for_NOAA_PR422_NESDIS_Tag_1280x720.wmv (1280x720) [80.1 MB] ||

In 2017, we have seen four Atlantic storms rapidly intensify with three of those storms - Hurricane Harvey, Irma and Maria - making landfall. When hurricanes intensify a large amount in a short period, scientists call this process rapid intensification. This is the hardest aspect of a storm to forecast and it can be most critical to people’s lives.While any hurricane can threaten lives and cause damage with storm surges, floods, and extreme winds, a rapidly intensifying hurricane can greatly increase these risks while giving populations limited time to prepare and evacuate. ||

NOAA’s GOES-U is the fourth and final 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 monitoring of space weather.GOES-U will be renamed GOES-19 after it reaches geostationary orbit. Following a successful on-orbit checkout of its instruments and systems, NOAA plans to put GOES-19 into operational service, replacing GOES-16 as GOES East. GOES-19 will work in tandem with GOES-18, NOAA’s GOES West satellite. Together, GOES East and GOES West watch over more than half the globe – from the west coast of Africa to New Zealand. ||

Music:“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 MusicThis video can be freely shared and downloaded. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, some individual imagery provided by FootageFirm.com, Sebolla74/Pond5 and danr13/Pond5 are obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.html || YouTubeThumbnail_GOES50th_GOESandEarth.jpg (1920x1080) [1.2 MB] || YouTubeThumbnail_GOES50th_GOESandEarth.png (1280x720) [1.5 MB] || 14756_GOES_50th_FINAL_UHD.00500_print.jpg (1024x576) [167.0 KB] || 14756_GOES_50th_FINAL_UHD.00500_searchweb.png (320x180) [95.9 KB] || 14756_GOES_50th_FINAL_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [178.6 MB] || 14756_GOES_50th_FINAL_UHD.en_US.srt [6.7 KB] || 14756_GOES_50th_FINAL_UHD.en_US.vtt [6.4 KB] || 14756_GOES_50th_FINAL_1080.en_US.srt [6.7 KB] || 14756_GOES_50th_FINAL_1080.en_US.vtt [6.4 KB] || 14756_GOES_50th_FINAL_UHD.webm (3840x2160) [20.5 MB] || 14756_GOES_50th_FINAL_UHD.00500_thm.png [7.4 KB] || 14756_GOES_50th_FINAL_UHD.mp4 (3840x2160) [684.3 MB] ||

Animation showing a massive lightning storm form over Northern Alabama on September 2, 2012. Although the data shown here is based on real observations, the cloud cover data was only available for a very limited window of time as an experiment using the GOES-14 satellite. The cloud data comes from ground-based sensors. This animation is a proof-of-concept showing the kind of data that will be gathered by GOES-R on a regular basis. || lightning_comp.0499_print.jpg (1024x576) [148.4 KB] || background.4k.png (3840x2160) [7.7 MB] || lightning_comp.0499_searchweb.png (320x180) [103.2 KB] || lightning_comp.0499_thm.png (80x40) [6.9 KB] || lightning_comp_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [14.7 MB] || sample_composite (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || lightning_comp_1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [1.8 MB] || date_layer (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || cloud_layer (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || lightning_layer (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || lightning_comp_1080p30.mp4.hwshow [188 bytes] ||

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