Remote Sensing News Archive NWA Remote Sensing Committee

• Satellites

  • EXIS space weather instrument ready for GOES-R (May 2, 2013)
  • Meteor explosion viewed by Meteosat-9 (Feb 15, 2013)
  • Solar storm warning capability (Feb 13, 2013)
  • GOES-R passes Critical Design Review (Nov 28, 2012)
  • JPSS review (Sep 27, 2012)
  • METOP-B launch (Sep 17, 2012)
  • MSG-3 launch (Jul 6, 2012)
  • GOES-7 retired
  • Solar storm (Jan 23, 2012)
  • First NPP Image (Nov 22, 2011)
  • NPP launch (Oct 28, 2011)
  • Indian satellite launch (Oct 12, 2011)
  • Landsat reveals ND flooding (Jun 27, 2011)
  • Aquarius satellite to study climate change (Jun 10, 2011)
  • Grimsvotn, Iceland volcanic eruption (May, 2011)
  • Satellites view tsunami devastation (Mar 14, 2011)
  • NASA Glory satellite launch failure (Mar 4, 2011)
  • Global opposition to FCC broadband plan (Oct 22, 2010)
  • GOES-12 redirected to support South America (May 25, 2010)
  • NASA awards contract to Ball Aerospace for GPM Microwave Imager (May 10, 2010)
  • Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Gulf of Mexico (April 21, 2010)
  • Iceland volcanic eruption (April 17, 2010)
  • GOES-P launch successful (Mar 5, 2010)
  • NPOESS restructuring as JPSS (Feb 2, 2010)
  • QuickSCAT malfunction (Nov 24, 2009)
  • DMSP F18 launched (Oct 20, 2009)
  • GOES-O launch success! (Jun 27, 2009)
  • NOAA-N' launched into orbit (Feb 7, 2009)
  • Lockheed-Martin to build GOES-RDec 2008)
  • Satellites aid rescue workers in Honduras (Oct 2008)
  • Jason-2 launched! (June 2008)
  • Key climate sensor restored to NPOESS (May 2008)
  • NOAA satellites help rescue >350 in 2007 (Jan 2008)
  • NOAA awards contract for GOES Lightning Mapper (Dec 2007)
  • NOAA awards SUVI contract (Sep 2007)
  • OMPS restored to NPP (Apr 2007)
  • GOES-10 Re-positioned to View South America (Jan 18, 2007)
  • GOES-13 Science Test Results
  • NPOESS Will Have Scaled-down CMIS sensor (Dec 2006)
  • Metop Launch a Success (Oct 19, 2006)
  • Images of Hurricane Katrina (Aug 2005)
  • GOES-13 Launch (May 25, 2006)
  • NOAA-N Reaches Orbit (May 20, 2005)
  • Japan launches MTSAT (Feb 26, 2005)
  • NASA Launches Aura Satellite (July 15, 2004)
  • DMSP F16 Satellite Operational (Nov 20, 2003)
  • NOAA/GSA Break Ground for State-of-the-Art Satellite Facility (Apr 11, 2003)
  • GOES-12 with Solar X-Ray Imager Activated by NOAA (Apr 1, 2003)
  • NOAA-M Launch Successful (June 24, 2002)
  • NASA AQUA Launch (May 4, 2002)
  • QuickTOMS fails to reach orbit after launch from Vandenberg (Sep 21, 2001)
  • GOES-M Launched from Cape Canaveral (Jul 23, 2001)
  • GOES-Tap service decommissioned (Oct 14, 1998)

• Radar

  • Dual-Pol upgrade completed (Apr, 2013)
  • Dual-pol validation at NSSL (Feb 22, 2012)
  • Wind farm impacts on WSR-88D (Jan 2009)
  • All Hurricane Hunter aircraft to be equipped with SFMR's (Feb 2008)
  • Advances in airborne weather radars (Sep 1, 2007)
  • New Doppler radars for Hurricane Hunter aircraft (Oct 2006)
  • OFCM Report on Phased Array Radars (June 2006)
  • New Radar for Icing Avoidance Unveiled by NCAR (Mar 9, 2004)
  • NOAA Unveils New Phased Array Radar (Apr 25, 2003)
  • Research Radars Observe Hurricane Lili (Oct 4, 2002)
  • NWS' New Weather Radar Data Distribution System (Jan 16,2001)

• Profilers

  • New wind profiler for Shuttle Landing Facility (Feb 2013)
  • Upgrades planned to NOAA's profiler network (Mar 30, 2010)
  • NOAA Profiler Data Assists in Space Shuttle Columbia Investigation (Oct 3, 2003)
  • Wind Profilers on NOAA Ships (Nov 20, 2000)

• Lightning

  • Total Lightning to NWS offices (Feb 2013)
  • NOAA awards contract to Lockheed Martin for GOES Lightning Mapper (Dec 2007)
  • NASA Lightning Mapper on TRMM (Nov 5, 1997)

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