A rather interesting pass from Meteor M-2 last night, showing a very unusual view of New Zealand and the surrounding Pacific Ocean / Tasman Sea. However I wasn’t the only one encountering images like this, with multiple similar image captures…
The image below was captured earlier today from the EQS-G1 (formerly GOES 13) weather satellite. Looking closely there is what looks to be a large area of land, highlighted by the yellow box, south of India. There is clearly a…
Before GOES 17 took over as GOES West, GOES 15 was the previous GOES West satellite. It is still in orbit and it is effectively on standby in case there are issues with one of the current satellites, GOES East…
As I’ve previously posted, I’ve some automated watchdog code which looks for when something isn’t quite right with the capture and processing of satellite images. This results in a few emails a month at the most, so whilst nothing unusual,…
As reported on space.com, the decommissioned US weather satellite NOAA 17 has broken up into at least 16 pieces. This is a similar fate to what happened to NOAA 16 in 2015. NOAA 15 / 18 / 19 are still…