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On Oct. 17, 2024, NOAA shared initial imagery from the GOES-19 lightning Mapper. The GOES-19 Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) instrument, launched on June 25, 2024, is now continuously observing lightning over the Western Hemisphere. Recently, the GOES-19 GLM detected and monitored lightning activity in two extremely hazardous hurricanes – Helene and Milton. Lightning activity in the outer rainbands and eyewalls of these hurricanes was associated with rapid intensification. Frequent lightning outside the Hurricane Milton’s core was associated with intense rain bands that produced widespread flash flooding and tornadoes across Florida on Oct. 9, 2024.

GOES-19 is currently undergoing post-launch testing, which includes validation and calibration of its instruments, systems and data to prepare it for operations. NOAA plans for GOES-19 to replace GOES-16 as GOES East in April 2025.

Imagery and data from GOES-19 during the post-launch testing phase should be considered preliminary and non-operational.

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The Geostationary Lightning Mapper instrument that will fly on NOAA’s GOES-U satellite is lifted into place in preparation for installation onto the spacecraft.

GLM detects and maps total lightning — in-cloud, cloud- to-cloud, and cloud-to-ground — continuously over the Americas and adjacent ocean regions. GLM offers insights beyond the presence of a lightning strike, revealing the extent of lightning flashes and the distance they travel. This information helps forecast developing severe storms and a wide range of high-impact environmental phenomena, including hailstorms, microburst winds, tornadoes, hurricanes, flash floods, snowstorms, and fires.

GOES-U, the final satellite in the GOES-R Series, is planned for launch in 2024.

Photo credit: Lockheed Martin

The Geostationary Lightning Mapper instrument that will fly on NOAA’s GOES-U satellite is prepared for installation onto the spacecraft.

GLM detects and maps total lightning — in-cloud, cloud- to-cloud, and cloud-to-ground — continuously over the Americas and adjacent ocean regions. GLM offers insights beyond the presence of a lightning strike, revealing the extent of lightning flashes and the distance they travel. This information helps forecast developing severe storms and a wide range of high-impact environmental phenomena, including hailstorms, microburst winds, tornadoes, hurricanes, flash floods, snowstorms, and fires.

GOES-U, the final satellite in the GOES-R Series, is planned for launch in 2024.

Photo credit: Lockheed Martin

The Geostationary Lightning Mapper instrument that will fly on NOAA’s GOES-U satellite is lifted up in preparation for installation onto the spacecraft.

GLM detects and maps total lightning — in-cloud, cloud- to-cloud, and cloud-to-ground — continuously over the Americas and adjacent ocean regions. GLM offers insights beyond the presence of a lightning strike, revealing the extent of lightning flashes and the distance they travel. This information helps forecast developing severe storms and a wide range of high-impact environmental phenomena, including hailstorms, microburst winds, tornadoes, hurricanes, flash floods, snowstorms, and fires.

GOES-U, the final satellite in the GOES-R Series, is planned for launch in 2024.

Photo credit: Lockheed Martin

The Geostationary Lightning Mapper instrument that will fly on NOAA’s GOES-U satellite is installed on the spacecraft, alongside the Advanced Baseline Imager (covered in silver thermal blankets).

GLM detects and maps total lightning — in-cloud, cloud- to-cloud, and cloud-to-ground — continuously over the Americas and adjacent ocean regions. GLM offers insights beyond the presence of a lightning strike, revealing the extent of lightning flashes and the distance they travel. This information helps forecast developing severe storms and a wide range of high-impact environmental phenomena, including hailstorms, microburst winds, tornadoes, hurricanes, flash floods, snowstorms, and fires.

GOES-U, the final satellite in the GOES-R Series, is planned for launch in 2024.

Photo credit: Lockheed Martin

Engineers prepare for the removal of the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) instrument that will fly on the NOAA’s GOES-U satellite from its shipping container for installation onto the spacecraft.

GLM detects and maps total lightning — in-cloud, cloud- to-cloud, and cloud-to-ground — continuously over the Americas and adjacent ocean regions. GLM offers insights beyond the presence of a lightning strike, revealing the extent of lightning flashes and the distance they travel. This information helps forecast developing severe storms and a wide range of high-impact environmental phenomena, including hailstorms, microburst winds, tornadoes, hurricanes, flash floods, snowstorms, and fires.

GOES-U, the final satellite in the GOES-R Series, is planned for launch in 2024.

Photo credit: Lockheed Martin

The GOES-R Series Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) is the first instrument of its kind in geostationary orbit. It detects total lightning (in-cloud and cloud-to-ground) activity and reveals the spatial extent and distance lightning flashes travel. Rapid increases in total lightning activity often precede severe and tornadic thunderstorms and can be an indication that a hurricane is strengthening. GLM data is critical for a number of public safety applications as well as for predicting changes in climate.

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A ULA Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying the NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES-S. Launch was at 5:02 p.m. EST, March 1, 2018. GOES-S is the second satellite in a series of next-generation weather satellites. via NASA ift.tt/2CRP2nH

A ULA Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying the NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES-S. Launch was at 5:02 p.m. EST, March 1, 2018. GOES-S is the second satellite in a series of next-generation weather satellites. via NASA ift.tt/2CRP2nH

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying the NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES-S. Liftoff was at 5:02 p.m. EST. GOES-S is the second satellite in a series of next-generation weather satellites. It will launch to a geostationary position over the U.S. to provide images of storms and help predict weather forecasts, severe weather outlooks, watches, warnings, lightning conditions and longer-term forecasting.

A ULA Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying the NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES-S. Launch was at 5:02 p.m. EST, March 1, 2018. GOES-S is the second satellite in a series of next-generation weather satellites. via NASA ift.tt/2CRP2nH

A ULA Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying the NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES-S. Launch was at 5:02 p.m. EST, March 1, 2018. GOES-S is the second satellite in a series of next-generation weather satellites. via NASA ift.tt/2CRP2nH

Tim Walsh, GOES-R System Program director for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, speaks to members of social media in the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium. The briefing focused on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES-S, the second spacecraft in a series of next-generation NOAA weather satellites. It will launch to a geostationary position over the U.S. to provide images of storms and help predict weather forecasts, severe weather outlooks, watches, warnings, lightning conditions and longer-term forecasting. GOES-S is slated to lift off at 5:02 p.m. EST on March 1, 2018 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.

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Pam Sullivan, NASA's GOES-R flight director, left, and A.J. Sandora, Lockheed Martin's GOES-R Series Mechanical Operations Assembly, Test and Launch Operations (ATLO) manager, speak to members of social media in the Kennedy Space Centerâs Press Site auditorium. The briefing focused on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's, or NOAA's, Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES-S. The spacecraft is the second satellite in a series of next-generation NOAA weather satellites. It will launch to a geostationary position over the U.S. to provide images of storms and help predict weather forecasts, severe weather outlooks, watches, warnings, lightning conditions and longer-term forecasting. GOES-S is slated to lift off at 5:02 p.m. EST on March 1, 2018 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.

Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

Joe Pica, director of the Office of Observations for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's, or NOAA’s, National Weather Service, speaks to members of social media in the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium. The briefing focused on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES-S, the second spacecraft in a series of next-generation NOAA weather satellites. It will launch to a geostationary position over the U.S. to provide images of storms and help predict weather forecasts, severe weather outlooks, watches, warnings, lightning conditions and longer-term forecasting. GOES-S is slated to lift off at 5:02 p.m. EST on March 1, 2018 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.

Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

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NASA successfully launched the second in a series of next-generation weather satellites for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) at 5:02 p.m. EST Thursday.

NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S) lifted off on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

GOES-S mission managers confirmed at 8:58 p.m. the spacecraft’s solar arrays successfully deployed and the spacecraft was operating on its own power.

The satellite will provide faster, more accurate and more detailed data, in near real-time, to track storm systems, lightning, wildfires, coastal fog and other hazards that affect the western United States.

Image credit: NASA/Bill White

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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying the NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES-S. Liftoff was at 5:02 p.m. EST. GOES-S is the second satellite in a series of next-generation NOAA weather satellites. GOES-S will be renamed GOES-17 once it reaches geostationary orbit, approximately 17 days after launch.

The satellite will be operational in late 2017 as NOAA's GOES West to track storm systems, lightning, wildfires, dense fog and other hazards that threaten the western U.S.