Earth from Orbit
The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, which officially ends on November 30, showcased near-normal activity, marked by periods of very strong storms.
Feature Story
To mark 50 years of GOES in orbit, NOAA is looking back at ten notable events captured by these groundbreaking satellites.
Feature Story
The Sentinel-6B (S-6B) satellite was launched on November 16, 2025, at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Feature Story
In the early hours of July 4, 2025 a devastating flash flood occurred in the Central Texas Hill Country. The Guadalupe River in Kerr County rose over twenty feet in just a few hours, and more than a hundred people lost their lives and thousands of…
Feature Story
NOAA satellites have witnessed some pretty extreme events, from massive wildfires and explosive volcanic eruptions to a 515-mile-long lightning flash.
Announcement
On September 18, 2025, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) signed an Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreement with Raytheon for the Critical Design Review (CDR) study of a weather imagery prototype mission that will mature…
Announcement
NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) has published a study of emerging Artificial Intelligence-driven Earth Observation Digital Twin (EODT) technology authored by Lockheed Martin and NVIDIA under a Joint…
Satellite Snapshots
NOAA’s GOES East (GOES-19) satellite viewed the autumnal equinox, which marked the official start of astronomical fall, on Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, at 2:19 p.m. EDT.