NOAA’s latest generation of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES), known as the GOES-R Series, is the nation’s most advanced fleet of geostationary weather satellites.
Find out more about these satellites as well as the latest news below.
Introducing the GOES Satellites
An introduction to NOAA's GOES-R Series Satellites - including GOES-R GOES-16 GOES East and GOES-S GOES-17 GOES West.
Introducing the GOES Series GOES 101
Satellite science is fun for kids too! From weather and hazards on Earth to search and rescue and bursts of energy from the sun, the GOES-R satellite will see it all from 22,000 miles above our planet!
Watch GOES-R Meet GOES-R
GOES News
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Earth from Orbit
NOAA satellites monitored a large plume of dust from the Sahara Desert as it traveled off the west… -
Satellite Snapshots
False color satellite imagery shows wave clouds and red snow on the ground. -
Satellite Snapshots
GOES East zoomed in on two low pressure systems swirling over the North Atlantic while cloud… -
Satellite Snapshots
Water vapor imagery from NOAA’s GOES East satellite viewed an atmospheric wave pattern brought on… -
Feature Story
NOAA's GOES-T satellite is fully assembled and beginning a set of rigorous tests to ensure it… -
Feature Story
NOAA’s GOES-16 (GOES-East) and GOES-17 (GOES-West) satellites are helping the public see where… -
Feature Story
GOES satellites provide beautiful images of Earth. But what you see are digital representations of… -
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NASA and NOAA have appointed a board to investigate an instrument anomaly aboard the GOES-17…