Engineering:List of NOAA satellites

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This is a list of satellites owned and operated (formerly or currently) by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), as well as planned, failed, and canceled launches.[1][2][3][4]

Program(s) Generation Launch Designation Operational Designation Launch Date Decommission Date
ITOS 3rd Gen POES ITOS-A NOAA-1 December 11, 1970[5] August 19, 1971[6]
ITOS 3rd Gen POES ITOS-D NOAA-2 October 15, 1972[7] January 30, 1975[6]
ITOS 3rd Gen POES ITOS-F NOAA-3 November 6, 1973[8] August 31, 1976[6]
ITOS 3rd Gen POES ITOS-G NOAA-4 November 15, 1974[9] November 18, 1978[6]
ITOS 3rd Gen POES ITOS-H NOAA-5 July 29, 1976[10] July 16, 1979[6]
GOES SMS Derived GOES-A GOES-1 October 16, 1975 March 7, 1995[11]
GOES SMS Derived GOES-B GOES-2 June 16, 1977 May 5, 2001[11]
GOES SMS Derived GOES-C GOES-3 June 16, 1978[11] June 29, 2016[12]
POES 4th Gen POES NOAA-A NOAA-6 June 27, 1979 March 31, 1987
POES 4th Gen POES NOAA-B N/A May 29, 1980 Launch Failure
POES 4th Gen POES NOAA-C NOAA-7 June 23, 1981 June 7, 1986
POES 4th Gen POES NOAA-E NOAA-8 March 28, 1983 December 29, 1985
POES 4th Gen POES NOAA-F NOAA-9 December 12, 1984 February 13, 1998
POES 4th Gen POES NOAA-G NOAA-10 September 17, 1986 August 30, 2001
POES 4th Gen POES NOAA-H NOAA-11 September 24, 1988 June 16, 2004
POES 4th Gen POES NOAA-D NOAA-12 May 14, 1991 August 10, 2007
POES 4th Gen POES NOAA-I NOAA-13 August 9, 1993 August 21, 1993
POES 4th Gen POES NOAA-J NOAA-14 December 30, 1994 May 23, 2007
GOES 1st Gen GOES GOES-D GOES-4 September 9, 1980 November 11, 1988[11]
GOES 1st Gen GOES GOES-E GOES-5 May 15, 1981 July 18, 1990[11]
GOES 1st Gen GOES GOES-F GOES-6 April 28, 1983 May 24, 1992[11]
GOES 1st Gen GOES GOES-G N/A May 3, 1986[11] Failed Orbit
GOES 1st Gen GOES GOES-H GOES-7 February 26, 1987[11] April 12, 2012
GOES 2nd Gen GOES GOES-I GOES-8 April 13, 1994 May 5, 2004[11]
GOES 2nd Gen GOES GOES-J GOES-9 May 23, 1995 July 28, 1998[11]
GOES 2nd Gen GOES GOES-K GOES-10 April 25, 1997[11] December 02, 2009[13]
GOES 2nd Gen GOES GOES-L GOES-11 May 3, 2000[11] December 16, 2011[14][15]
GOES 2nd Gen GOES GOES-M GOES-12 July 23, 2001[11] August 16, 2013[16]
POES 5th Gen POES NOAA-K NOAA-15 May 13, 1998 August 19, 2025
POES 5th Gen POES NOAA-L NOAA-16 September 21, 2000 September 17, 2003
POES 5th Gen POES NOAA-M NOAA-17 June 24, 2002 April 10, 2013
POES 5th Gen POES NOAA-N NOAA-18 May 20, 2005 June 6, 2025
POES 5th Gen POES NOAA-N Prime NOAA-19 February 6, 2009 August 13, 2025
NOAA Jason / NASA OSTM N/A JASON-1 JASON-1 December 7, 2001 July 1, 2013[17]
NOAA Jason / NASA OSTM N/A JASON-2 JASON-2 2008
NOAA Jason / NASA OSTM N/A JASON-3 JASON-3 January 17, 2016
GOES 3rd Gen GOES GOES-N GOES-13 May 24, 2006[11]
GOES 3rd Gen GOES GOES-O GOES-14 June 27, 2009[11]
GOES 3rd Gen GOES GOES-P GOES-15 2010
GOES 3rd Gen GOES GOES-Q N/A Cancelled Cancelled
SUOMI-NPP / JPSS N/A SUOMI-NPP SUOMI-NPP 2011
JPSS N/A JPSS-1 NOAA-20 2017
JPSS N/A JPSS-2 NOAA-21 2022
JPSS N/A JPSS-3 NOAA-23 2032 (Predicted as of August 2025)
JPSS N/A JPSS-4 NOAA-22 2027 (Predicted as of August 2025)
GOES 4th Gen GOES GOES-R GOES-16 2016
GOES 4th Gen GOES GOES-S GOES-17 2018
GOES 4th Gen GOES GOES-T GOES-18 2022
GOES 4th Gen GOES GOES-U GOES-19 2024
DSCOVR 1st Gen Deep Space Satellite DSCOVR DSCOVR 2015
SWFO 2nd Gen Deep Space Satellite SWFO-L1 SOLAR-1 September 23, 2025 (Predicted as of Aug 2025)

References

  1. ↑ "History of NOAA Satellites". NOAA. https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/content/noaa-satellites-history-timeline. 
  2. ↑ "A Legacy in Orbit: NOAA Decommissions the POES Satellite Constellation". https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/news/legacy-orbit-noaa-decommissions-the-poes-satellite-constellation. 
  3. ↑ "GOES History". https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/our-satellites/related-information/history-of-noaa-satellites/goes-history. 
  4. ↑ "POES History". https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/our-satellites/related-information/history-of-noaa-satellites/poes-history. 
  5. ↑ "Digital collections | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration". https://www.noaa.gov/digital-collections/collections/2277/item?page=27. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 "Optimum management strategies for the NOAA". https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA165143.pdf. 
  7. ↑ "Spac0228.JPG | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration". https://www.noaa.gov/media/digital-collections-photo/spac0228jpg. 
  8. ↑ "AMS members win Commerce gold and silver medals". https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/55/1/1520-0477-55_1_45.pdf. 
  9. ↑ "NOAA-4 Launched". https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/80/12/1520-0477-80_12_2761.pdf. 
  10. ↑ "Spac0249.JPG | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration". https://www.noaa.gov/media/digital-collections-photo/spac0249jpg. 
  11. ↑ 11.00 11.01 11.02 11.03 11.04 11.05 11.06 11.07 11.08 11.09 11.10 11.11 11.12 11.13 11.14 "NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) I-M and N-P Series Imager Data". https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/metadata/landing-page/bin/iso?id=gov.noaa.ncdc:C00681. 
  12. ↑ "Goes-3 Satellite Decommissioned After Linking Antarctica to the World for More Than 20 Years | the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami". http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/news-events/press-releases/2016/goes-3-satellite-decommissioned-after-linking-antarctica-to-the-world-for-m. 
  13. ↑ Staff, SpaceNews (December 7, 2009). "NOAA Deactivates GOES-10 After 12 Years of Service". https://spacenews.com/noaa-deactivates-goes-10-after-12-years-service/. 
  14. ↑ "Sat notes". https://wx.erau.edu/faculty/mullerb/Wx365/Sat_HTML_notes.html. 
  15. ↑ "Meteorological Satellite Frequencies". https://www.emitters.space/Metsats.html. 
  16. ↑ "GOES-12 is retired from service". 16 August 2013. https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/archives/13650. 
  17. ↑ "Jason-1 Satellite Decommissioning | PO.DAAC / JPL / NASA". https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/announcements/2013-07-03_Jason-1_Satellite_Decommissioning#:~:text=From%20Josh%20Willis:%20%E2%80%9CI%20too,kind%20of%20sad...%E2%80%9D&text=From%20Jean%2DYves%20Le%20Gall,to%20so%20many%20scientific%20disciplines.%E2%80%9D&text=The%20torch;%20be%20yours%20to%20hold%20it%20high.&text=We%20wish%20a%20very%20long,1%20burning%20long%20and%20bright!. 



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