The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program has been particularly important for understanding when a hurricane is about to ...

The Data Collection System, onboard the NOAA GOES satellites, receives environmental data from more than 25,000 meteorological platforms in the western hemisphere using a one-way UHF uplink. There is ...

My fear is that we’re going to look back 25 years from now and say, ‘This is when the progress stopped,’” one weather expert ...

The antenna for the GOES-East weather satellite is nothing if not huge, as it communicates with a satellite close to 23,500 ...

The loss of satellite data, along with other cuts to data, funding, and staffing, could ultimately put more lives at risk during hurricane season.

Today on Tracking the Tropics, National Hurricane Center Science Operations Officer Wallace Hogsett, Ph. D. sits down with ...

Four satellites are currently available in orbit for operational use. GOES-13 watches the eastern hemisphere of our planet, GOES-15 the western, and GOES-12 the southern. GOES-14 provides backup or ...

Hurricane forecasters will continue to use all available tools, including satellite, radar, weather balloon and dropsonde data, to monitor the tropics and issue hurricane forecasts. But the loss of ...