I 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.
longwave•Jul 16, 2026
The 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•Jul 16, 2026
> 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.
> 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•Jul 16, 2026
As 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•Jul 16, 2026
The 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/
This admin gutted both NOAAs budget and workforce so a website redesign is probably low priority at the moment.
dylan604•Jul 16, 2026
Sites 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.
dabluecaboose•Jul 16, 2026
While 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.
Maybe if the UX was nicer, you wouldn't need to write scrapers and parsers and could just use their site.
jefftk•Jul 16, 2026
They're scraping to automatically update the wallpaper on their desktop. That's not something a website can do, even with fantastic UX.
lightedman•Jul 16, 2026
"That's not something a website can do, even with fantastic UX."
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.
queuebert•Jul 16, 2026
I'm sure that was 100% secure, too. /s (I did the same thing back then.)
dabluecaboose•Jul 16, 2026
We don't need a bloated React framework to show a plaintext file with the fuel tank levels. It's NOAA, not Microsoft.
irishcoffee•Jul 16, 2026
> We don't need a bloated React framework
Could have stopped there for 99% of websites
ranger207•Jul 16, 2026
Hey, I have a script for updating my background too! I'm not archiving the old images though, but I've thought about it to make some cool animations
dabluecaboose•Jul 16, 2026
Hah originally making an animation was my plan, but as so often happens it fell on the backburner and then I ended up with a massive archive. I just deleted it once I realized that A) Better archives exist elsewhere and B) I wasn't going to do anything with it.
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.
mthoms•Jul 16, 2026
It would be great if an LLM could be trained to generate interpolated images between the 10m intervals of the full disk geocolor product. The animations would be fantastic.
I've got about 2.5 years worth of that imagery if someone knows a good way to do this on a budget.
zanecodes•Jul 16, 2026
I doubt you need an LLM for that, a diffusion model or perhaps even a deep CNN could probably do a passable job. You could train it by taking consecutive triplets of images [A, B, C] and providing [A, C] as inputs with B as the expected output.
The counter to this is the UK.Gov website. Very simple and basic, modern (maybe) but very accessible. Government websites should put accessibility over everything else.
kevin_thibedeau•Jul 16, 2026
You can thank AccuWeather for nerfing any funding for site modernization. I'm surprised the tiled radar map hasn't had the Biden performance fixes reverted.
queuebert•Jul 16, 2026
The link OP submitted appears to be a webpage displaying a screenshot of another web page, and the image aspect ratio has been altered. It's so comically bad it had to be on purpose, or someone is doing their web dev in MS Word.
Edit: I think actually it's a screenshot of a screenshot even, and this appears to be the entire design of spaceweather.gov. What in the holy heck is going on there? This has to be a top 10 worst website designs of all time.
bityard•Jul 16, 2026
Lots of the web still looks like this when you step outside the comfort zone of big tech search engines, content streaming sites, and social media.
jubilanti•Jul 16, 2026
A 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•Jul 16, 2026
What 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•Jul 16, 2026
We really need to finish the Gollop Chamber.
dabluecaboose•Jul 16, 2026
They're concerned because GOES-19 deployed with the newest Rothschild Space Weather Laser, which could disrupt their atmospheric camouflage
Looking at the timestamp, that's from yesterday. Nominal product delivery happens ~every 10 minutes.
dabluecaboose•Jul 16, 2026
Former 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•Jul 16, 2026
> Supposedly from someone stepping on it in the cleanroom
I would be too embarrassed to return to work if I did that.
pooloo•Jul 16, 2026
How 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•Jul 16, 2026
I'm sure they take detailed close out photos and likely video of the entire handling process.
altairprime•Jul 16, 2026
“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”
Rygian•Jul 16, 2026
From now on, every time I see the word "anomaly" I will assume it is an euphemism for "someone stepped on it".
doright•Jul 16, 2026
> GOES-17 had the loop heat pipe anomaly(Supposedly from someone stepping on it in the cleanroom...)
Was this reported anywhere in the news? Sounds like one of those "not even once" kind of mistakes.
Uncle_Brumpus•Jul 16, 2026
Interestingly, 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.
I 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•Jul 16, 2026
They 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•Jul 16, 2026
Initiate Sol Invictus mode
dabluecaboose•Jul 16, 2026
The 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_•Jul 16, 2026
> 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•Jul 16, 2026
Earthian, I believe? If you adhere to the same rules as Martian, Venusian, et al. I’d me more inclined to use Earthen, capitalized, though.
backprop1989•Jul 16, 2026
Terran
bee_rider•Jul 16, 2026
Just don’t point the thing at any maggots.
munificent•Jul 16, 2026
My restorative mode is also "turn self towards sun, don't do anything unnecessary".
erikig•Jul 16, 2026
"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows will fall behind you." Māori Proverb
ls65536•Jul 16, 2026
Very unfortunate timing given the ongoing wildfires and associated smoke spreading across eastern North America in recent days.
ls65536•Jul 16, 2026
Looks 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]
Anyone 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.
I used to work for NOAA. I think the scientists would flip out over this. Did you share it?
webdoodle•Jul 16, 2026
Invasion of Cuba incoming?
edot•Jul 16, 2026
No, 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.
ck2•Jul 16, 2026
status 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.
```
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•Jul 16, 2026
Looks 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!
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> 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.
This admin gutted both NOAAs budget and workforce so a website redesign is probably low priority at the moment.
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
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.
Could have stopped there for 99% of websites
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.
Edit: I think actually it's a screenshot of a screenshot even, and this appears to be the entire design of spaceweather.gov. What in the holy heck is going on there? This has to be a top 10 worst website designs of all time.
* https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES19/ABI/CONUS/GEOCOLOR/2...
* https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES19/ABI/CONUS/GEOCOLOR/G...
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."
Was this reported anywhere in the news? Sounds like one of those "not even once" kind of mistakes.
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.
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
[0] https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/messages/2026/07/MSG_20260716...
https://www.earthmover.io/blog/virtual-zarr
* https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/operations/goes/status.html
* https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/operations/goes/status.html#datafi...
``` 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:
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. ```
https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector_band.php?sat=G1...