On July 4, NOAA's GOES-18 satellite captured the Dragon Bravo fire in Arizona's Grand Canyon National Park which started with a lightning strike and quickly became a roaring wildfire. The fire ...

A conceptional drawing of the Weather System Follow-on – Microwave (WSF-M) satellite. (Ball Aerospace) The Space Force said Thursday its newest weather satellite is now operational and will soon be ...

LOS ANGELES — A cooling problem with a key instrument on a weather satellite launched less than three months ago could degrade its performance for at least part of each day, with potential but still ...

For the second time in less than a year, a key weather satellite is ailing, forcing a spare satellite into service, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The ...

It doesn’t matter where you get your weather forecast. With the newest weather satellite in orbit, prediction models will probably improve overnight. The GOES-R satellite was launched from Cape ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Say hello to the Joint Polar Satellite System 1 (JPSS-1), a new satellite that does everything ...

A powerful SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket boosted a hurricane-hunting GOES weather satellite into orbit Tuesday, the final member of a four-satellite fleet at the heart of an $11 billion upgrade to the ...

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This week, a super typhoon named Soudelor marched massively, ominously across the western Pacific before stomping over Taiwan and stumbling into coastal China. The loop above lets you see it the day ...