Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode(spaceweather.gov) |
Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode(spaceweather.gov) |
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.
I would be too embarrassed to return to work if I did that.
"Observed EMP555 step on loop heat pipe. Conducted visual inspection of the affected area; no damage found, pipe remains nominal."
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.
[0] https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/messages/2026/07/MSG_20260716...
> 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.
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.
This admin gutted both NOAAs budget and workforce so a website redesign is probably low priority at the moment.
* https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES19/ABI/CONUS/GEOCOLOR/2...
* https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES19/ABI/CONUS/GEOCOLOR/G...
I still have the script somewhere. I should throw an LLM at it and see if I can't sand off a few rough edges.
I've got about 2.5 years worth of that imagery if someone knows a good way to do this on a budget.
Could have stopped there for 99% of websites
Actually, I used to have a live-updating website AS MY BACKGROUND. Windows 98 and Me, website used AJAX and Comet to make it happen.
You used to be able to set websites as your desktop background.
