List of NOAA satellites

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	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	SWFO-L1	September 23, 2025 (Predicted as of Aug 2025)

References

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4. "POES History".
5. "Digital collections | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration".
6. "Optimum management strategies for the NOAA" (PDF). apps.dtic.mil.
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10. "Spac0249.JPG | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration".
11. "NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) I-M and N-P Series Imager Data".
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". Archived from the original on 28 August 2017.
13. Staff, SpaceNews (December 7, 2009). "NOAA Deactivates GOES-10 After 12 Years of Service".
14. "Sat notes".
15. "Meteorological Satellite Frequencies".
16. "GOES-12 is retired from service". 16 August 2013.
17. "Jason-1 Satellite Decommissioning | PO.DAAC / JPL / NASA".