Geostationary Weather Satellites 2007 global coverage with -- 5 satellite programs – (USA, Europe, India, China, Japan) satellites (8 operational)

USA: NOAA GOES –GOES-11 (GOES-West) operational at 135W –GOES-12 (GOES-East) operational at 75W –GOES-10 operational at 60W –GOES-13 launched 2006, in storage, Science Test (ended ) at 105W

Europe: EUMETSAT Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) –Meteosat-8 (MSG-1) operational at 0 deg lon –Meteosat-7 operational at 57E

India: INSAT INSAT (Kalpana-1) operational at 74E

China: FY-2C FY-2C operational at 105E

Japan: MTSAT MTSAT-1R operational at 140E

GOES W IR windowNESDIS server

GOES WIR windowCIRA

GOES-1275WIR windowNESDIS server

GOES-10 60WIR windowCIRA

Meteosat-80 deg lonIR windowNESDIS server

Meteosat-7 57EIR windowNESDIS server

Meteosat-563EIR windowdiscontinued 25 Jan 07

INSAT (Kalpana-1) 74E IR real-time images available online at

FY-2C105EIR windowNESDIS server

MTSAT-1R140EIR windowNESDIS server MTSAT-2 was launched in 2006, and is in standby mode at 145E.

GOMS-1 76EIR image from 21 Jun 97 GOMS-1 failed and is no longer operational. Russia’s GOMS-Electro-1 is scheduled for launch in 2007.

COMS: Korea plans to launch its first geostationary weather satellite in 2008, to be located either at E or 128.2E

Information on the status of current geostaionary weather satellites and plans for future satellites are available online at :