GOES 17 Project Update

Having now received most of the items needed, missing the SAWbird (Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) plus a band pass filter) and an adaptor (I’ve one I’m using elsewhere which I can borrow), I’ve been having my first attempts to pick…

Weather Heading This Way

The NOAA 18 combined pass image from this morning shows an interesting weather system heading to New Zealand and it is large enough to affect the weather over the whole country, so well over 1,500km across! Whilst there isn’t a…

GOES 17 Project

GOES 17, also known as GOES West, is a US weather satellite which is in a geostationary orbit 35,700km above the Earth. It was launched in March 2018 and it has a planned life out to about 2036, although based…