GOES-16 is a Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) series operated by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and is the weather satellite in the East, located at 75.2° W, which provides a view centered on the Americas. GOES-16 provides high spatial and temporal resolution imagery of the Earth through 16 spectral bands, at visible and infrared wavelengths, using its Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI). GOES-16’s Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) is the first operational lightning mapper flown in geostationary orbit. The payload also includes: Extreme Ultraviolet and X-ray Irradiance Sensors (EXIS), Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI), Magnetometer (MAG), and Space Environment In-Situ Suite (SEISS).

At the clubhouse, the Skunkworks team has built a receiver using a Raspberry Pi and a low cost NooElec SDR to receive photos and telemetry on 1.691 GHz. In addition GOES 16 will occasionally relay images from the GOES17 satellite located over the Pacific Ocean. For more information please check out our blog post here.

Much guidance on the image processing was provided by the usradioguy.com website and the posts in the Geostationary Weather Satellite Group Facebook group managed by Carl Reinemann along with some personal help from Carl. Check out his site if you’re interested in this kind of stuff. Many thanks, Carl – we couldn’t have done it without you.

Below you can find links to our most recently received photos and telemetry from the clubhouse. The data is received continually from GOES16 and is processed every four hours (the processing itself takes about three hours). It’s uploaded to the website within the hour after its processing is complete.

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