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Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode
- qwertox 2mo agoBetter link: https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/operations/goes/status.html https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/operations/goes/status.html
- isaacdl 2mo agoI disagree. That just shows GOES-19 as "green", whatever that means. The OP link is also not very informative, but this link is even less so.
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- longwave 2mo agoThe outage list at the top is up to date, but the main status page is nearly three months old - the last updated date at the end is April 20, 2026.
- dabluecaboose 2mo ago> Please note: This status information on this website is generally updated on a monthly basis. Recent outages and anomalies on data flow are highlighted at the top of the page.
- lolc 2mo agohttps://www.ospo.noaa.gov/#datafile-3 https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/#datafile-3
- ImJasonH 2mo agohttps://www.nola.com/news/hurricane/weather-satellite-goes-19-out/article_75a9d7be-1e36-4bf1-b55f-26ff9a369157.html https://www.nola.com/news/hurricane/weather-satellite-goes-1... explains a bit more what this is, and what this means. > The main NOAA satellite for tracking Atlantic, Gulf Coast hurricanes is out until further notice > GOES-19 is the main instrument used to identify tropical waves as they strengthen and move over the Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, providing real-time tracking for forecasting.
- venzaspa 2mo agoAs an aside, I'm always surprised how US Gov websites look like they've been made in Dreamweaver in about 2006. Not even seemingly with a emphasis on usability either.
- kube-system 2mo agoThe ones that look old are old. The USG has newer design systems that you'll see used on many of the websites that have been redesigned more recently: https://designsystem.digital.gov/ https://designsystem.digital.gov/ This admin gutted both NOAAs budget and workforce so a website redesign is probably low priority at the moment.
- dylan604 2mo agoSites like NASA's APOD have not changed by design. So many third parties have been built up around sites that any change [w|c]ould break so much for no effective gain. Same holds true when people ask why things like NOTAMs and even NOAA's alerts are formatted the way they are.
- NetMageSCW 2mo agoA new feed could be created and people gradually migrated to it.
- dabluecaboose 2mo agoWhile it may not be flashy, I personally find the GOES sites extremely useful. Things are often simply placed at obvious and expected URLs, so scraping or monitoring is extremely easy. I wrote the script that provides the GOES NavSum [1] and it pretty much just builds a standardized text file and drops it in the folder. The neat thing is that this makes it really easy to programmatically scrape and parse the data. I wrote a personal script at one point that would download the GOES-EAST CONUS image and both EAST and WEST full disk images and composite them into a wallpaper. At one point my server had 500GB of archived GOES imagery. I liked to joke with my former coworkers that I could report image anomalies before they notice because my desktop wallpaper would change every 10 minutes. [1] https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/resources/cemscs/navsum.txt https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/resources/cemscs/navsum.txt
- jubilanti 2mo agoA safehold is like maintenance mode, shutting down all non-essential systems, after it detects something is wrong. Doesn't necessarily mean it is gone for good, but not a good sign.
- delichon 2mo agoWhat is it that the space aliens don't want us to see? The obvious conclusion is that they are hiding their invasion fleet arrivals inside of hurricanes. The proof will be when the system comes back online and only permits us to see ordinary weather.
- throwway120385 2mo agoWe really need to finish the Gollop Chamber.
- dabluecaboose 2mo agoThey're concerned because GOES-19 deployed with the newest Rothschild Space Weather Laser, which could disrupt their atmospheric camouflage
- malfist 2mo agoWhat would a space hurricane look like?
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- anonymousiam 2mo agohttps://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Lightning_storm https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Lightning_storm
- ck2 2mo agois this old cache? * https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES19/ABI/CONUS/GEOCOLOR/2500x1500.jpg https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES19/ABI/CONUS/GEOCOLOR/2... * https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES19/ABI/CONUS/GEOCOLOR/GOES19-CONUS-GEOCOLOR-625x375.mp4 https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES19/ABI/CONUS/GEOCOLOR/G...
- dabluecaboose 2mo agoLooking at the timestamp, that's from yesterday. Nominal product delivery happens ~every 10 minutes.
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- dabluecaboose 2mo agoFormer GOES engineer here. At this point I'd almost be surprised if 19 didn't have something go wrong. We had issues on almost every other satellite. GOES-17 had the loop heat pipe anomaly(Supposedly from someone stepping on it in the cleanroom...), GOES-15 (IIRC) had a micrometeorite strike, and GOES-13 had a fuel tank anomaly right before deorbit. GOES-16 and GOES-17 are on-orbit spares, so in the extremely unlikely event of a total failure there's at least another spacecraft on-orbit ready to take up station. That said, I have every faith in the GOES team to get to the bottom of this. They're the best, and I often wish I was back there working with them.
- fishgoesblub 2mo ago> Supposedly from someone stepping on it in the cleanroom I would be too embarrassed to return to work if I did that.
- pooloo 2mo agoHow do they track that? Is there a log book where someone has to write to? "Observed EMP555 step on loop heat pipe. Conducted visual inspection of the affected area; no damage found, pipe remains nominal."
- robszumski 2mo agoI'm sure they take detailed close out photos and likely video of the entire handling process.
- altairprime 2mo ago“Measurements taking of the person: foot and shoe weight, total weight including clothing, height and leg length, estimated velocity of travel at time, estimated duration of load”
- KennyBlanken 2mo agoSince it went into space with the stepped-on part, clearly nobody DID write it up. They really don't care. If the satellite blows up or fails, they get to build another.
- Uncle_Brumpus 2mo agoInterestingly, I noticed this in aproximately real time. I had been checking up on the visible-light geocolor composite images every hour or so to look at the massive plume of Canadian wildfire smoke that was turning the skies in the northeast dark orange yesterday. I haven't interacted with the GOES site or cared too much about the image output until the last 2 days, and the it immediately broke. Somewhat humorous to me.
- justusthane 2mo agoIs this what you're talking about? https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/conus_band.php?sat=G16&band=GEOCOLOR&length=24 https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/conus_band.php?sat=G16...
- dwroberts 2mo agoThis is a really cool page, never really thought about how much information you can squeeze out of just IR (recommend selecting the dust RGB and reading the PDF it links to explaining just how dust is tracked etc)
- brorfred 2mo agoI strongly recommend the Downlink app for this! https://downlinkapp.com https://downlinkapp.com It downloads false-color images from GOES and Himawari NRT and sets them as desktop images.
- dekhn 2mo agoI love how "safe mode" for a satellite is basically: "extend solar panels, turn self towards sun, don't do anything unnecessary, wait for further instructions".
- pphysch 2mo agoThey should rebrand it as "Praise the Sun" mode. We are sorry, GOES-19 is temporarily unavailable during a planned solar worship break of indefinite length.
- farx 2mo agoInitiate Sol Invictus mode
- dabluecaboose 2mo agoThe cool thing about geostationary orbits is that they're far enough out that they get 24/7 sun (Except around the equinoxes). We could easily fit a solar worship break in the schedule in between imaging and momentum dumps.
- Terr_ 2mo ago> a solar worship break It'd be easy to optimize with some additional religions too, since from that distance pretty much all possible Earthly [0] holy sites are in the same direction. [0] I just stumbled onto a fun grammar question! Is it "earthly" (non-supernatural) or is it Earthly (proper-adjective related to the planet), or both? I submit that it's possible to have an "earthly Martian holy-site", and therefore only the capitalized version works here. :p
- altairprime 2mo agoEarthian, I believe? If you adhere to the same rules as Martian, Venusian, et al. I’d me more inclined to use Earthen, capitalized, though.
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- ls65536 2mo agoVery unfortunate timing given the ongoing wildfires and associated smoke spreading across eastern North America in recent days.
- ls65536 2mo agoLooks like they're making progress toward getting things restarted: "Update #2: The GOES-19 Safehold has been resolved and engineers are working to prepare for restart of the onboard instruments. More information on the recovery timeline will be provided when known." [0] [0] https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/messages/2026/07/MSG_20260716_1502.html https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/messages/2026/07/MSG_20260716...
- tomnicholas1 2mo agoAnyone interested in accessing GOES data at scale will find this interesting - I created a Zarr index over the 7 billion chunks of data in the GOES-16 archive. https://www.earthmover.io/blog/virtual-zarr https://www.earthmover.io/blog/virtual-zarr
- runamuck 2mo agoI used to work for NOAA. I think the scientists would flip out over this. Did you share it?
- tomnicholas1 2mo agoYes! But if you want to share it with anyone else that would be great, since we're advocating for fairly radical changes within a big bureaucracy here, as I'm sure you will appreciate :)
- webdoodle 2mo agoInvasion of Cuba incoming?
- edot 2mo agoNo, you can’t see ships with this satellite. Too small. Besides, Russia and China have way better satellites that they’ll happily share intel from with Cuba.
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- ck2 2mo agostatus page says SAFEHOLD HAS BEEN RESOLVED > Update #2: The GOES-19 Safehold has been resolved and engineers are working to prepare for restart of the onboard instruments. More information on the recovery timeline will be provided when known. * https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/operations/goes/status.html https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/operations/goes/status.html * https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/operations/goes/status.html#datafile-1 https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/operations/goes/status.html#datafi...
- dlgeek 2mo agoFrom the latest update (https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/operations/goes/status.html#datafile-1 https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/operations/goes/status.html#datafi...), it looks like they're already restoring systems. ``` Update #3: DCS and SAR have returned to service as of 1630Z. Engineers will now work to restore ABI and expect imaging to resume by 1900Z. Image navigation may be slightly degraded for the first hour after imaging starts. The GOES-19 instruments will be restored in the following order: ABI GLM SUVI CCOR-1/EXIS/MAG/SEISS The recovery process to return all GOES-19 instruments to normal operations is projected to take approximately 8 hours. Update #2: The GOES-19 Safehold has been resolved and engineers are working to prepare for restart of the onboard instruments. More information on the recovery timeline will be provided when known. ```
- yabones 2mo agoLooks like its started to publish new imagery again! I'm sure those fellows are relieved to have it working... I can't imagine the stress of trying to debug something that far away and unreachable! https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector_band.php?sat=G19§or=cgl&band=GEOCOLOR&length=24 https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector_band.php?sat=G1...
- kittikitti 2mo agoThese environmental satellites affect our day-to-day including the accuracy of weather forecasts. I believe the GOES program must receive more government funding because GOES-19 is a single point of failure and there have been numerous funding concerns. This is a national security issue because lack of resources to mitigate emergency weather events can lead to increased loss of life.
- NetMageSCW 2mo agoWhat about the on-orbit spares?