For a few brief moments Saturday night, the meteorological community held its collective breath as United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket took off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral. Its payload couldn’t ...

The GOES-R Series Program, which is leading the effort to replace and upgrade NOAA’s existing fleet of geostationary satellites that track severe weather across the United States, received a favorable ...

The propulsion module (left) and system module (right) of the first GOES-R series weather satellite at Lockheed Martin’s cleanroom near Denver. Credit: Lockheed Martin WASHINGTON — The first of four ...

Real-time tools, visuals, and other resources to quantify the role of climate change in weather events. Alerts We issues alerts in many instances when the Climate Shift Index identifies a notable ...

What did you do this weekend? Well if you were NASA, you successfully launched NOAA’s brand-spanking new weather satellite GOES-R. Packed with six instruments, this geostationary satellite will be ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's next generation of GOES satellites, beginning with GOES-R, will have the ability to take full-disk images of Earth at five-minute intervals. The ...

In the field of meteorology there are occasional game-changing technological advances that lead to improved storm monitoring and weather forecasts. A few that come to mind include Doppler Radar, ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The AtlasV rocket, carrying the next generation of weather satellites, is at the launchpad ready for liftoff on Saturday afternoon at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- A new generation of weather satellite, called GOES-R, will lift off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center in just under 24 hours. It has been in the works for almost 20 years and ...

On Nov. 19, 2016, an Atlas V rocket launched the first next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R Series (GOES-R) satellite. See photos from the launch and mission in our full ...