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…
The North Island has had a lot of rain over the last 12 or so hours, but still not enough to balance out the lack of rain earlier this year over summer. And the South Island has been mainly clear.…
As can happen from time to time, there was not a single capture this morning when I went to look at the images. So I kicked off my usual trouble shooting routine. First place to check is the captures page,…
As we posted yesterday in “NOAA 9 – Back from the Dead?” it appears that NOAA 9 is far from dead based on our captures of four passes of the satellite over New Zealand over the last 24 hours. Three…
NOAA 9 was one of the early NOAA polar-orbiting weather satellites which was launched in 1984. The last contact was in February 1998. However, it has recently been broadcasting during daylight with a narrow constant frequency. This is most likely…