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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

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Missions → GOES-17 (operational)

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is a United States federal agency within the Department of Commerce, established in 1970. NOAA operates the national civil weather, ocean, and climate satellite infrastructure.

NOAA's satellite fleet spans two primary orbital regimes. The GOES-R series provides geostationary coverage over the Americas. The Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) delivers global low-Earth orbit coverage through Suomi-NPP, NOAA-20, and NOAA-21, carrying instruments including VIIRS, ATMS, CrIS, and OMPS.^[1] Beyond weather satellites, NOAA operates Jason-3 for ocean altimetry and participates in the FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2 constellation for GPS radio occultation atmospheric profiling.^[2]

NOAA data products underpin operational weather forecasting, hurricane monitoring, ocean and ice observation, and long-term climate monitoring across government, commercial, and research users worldwide.

Where this fits, supply chain

Compositional position

GOES-17 ——— this related

Operates

FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2
Suomi NPPextended
launched 2011-10-28 / sun-synchronous
NOAA-20operational
launched 2017-11-18 / sun-synchronous
NOAA-21operational
launched 2022-11-10 / sun-synchronous
GOES-17operational
launched 2018-03-01 / Geostationary orbit, 35786 km; backup at 89.5 W per WMO / 0.0035 day revisit / 18000 km swath
DSCOVRoperational
launched 2015-02-11 / Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point, about 1.5 million km from Earth
GOES-16operational
launched 2016-11-19 / Geostationary orbit; on-orbit storage at 104.7 degrees west / 0.003472 day revisit
GOES-19operational
launched 2024-06-25 / Geostationary orbit; GOES East at 75.2 degrees west / 0.003472 day revisit
GOES-18operational
launched 2022-03-01 / Geostationary orbit; GOES West at 137.0 degrees west / 0.003472 day revisit

Manufactures

Geostationary Lightning MapperOptical1 band
operational
Operator pricingPricing not publicly listed by operator
Solar Ultraviolet ImagerOpticalSpecs not publicly disclosed
operational
Operator pricingPricing not publicly listed by operator
Extreme Ultraviolet and X-ray Irradiance SensorsOpticalSpecs not publicly disclosed
operational
Operator pricingPricing not publicly listed by operator
Space Environment In-Situ SuiteOpticalSpecs not publicly disclosed
operational
Operator pricingPricing not publicly listed by operator
GOES-R MagnetometerOpticalSpecs not publicly disclosed
operational
Operator pricingPricing not publicly listed by operator
Compact Coronagraph-1 (CCOR-1)OpticalSpecs not publicly disclosed
operational
Operator pricingPricing not publicly listed by operator

Distributes

NOAA MiRS Level-2 Sounding ProductsnetCDF / L2open
netCDF / L2 / Free public NOAA operational product access.
Operator pricingPricing not publicly listed by operator
NOAA ATOVS Sounding ProductsNOAA CLASS archive product / L2open
NOAA CLASS archive product / L2 / Free public archive access through NOAA CLASS.
Operator pricingPricing not publicly listed by operator

Sources

[1]National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Wikipediacommunity2026-06-10Agency overview, founding 1970, budget ~$6.9B, 12000 employees, Dept of Commerce
[2]Joint Polar Satellite System | NESDIS | NOAAagency doc2026-06-10JPSS polar satellite program: Suomi-NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21; instruments VIIRS, ATMS, CrIS, OMPS
[3]Satellites | NOAAagency doc2026-06-10GOES-R series (GEO), JPSS (LEO), Jason-3 (altimetry), COSMIC-2 (radio occultation)

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