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Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode

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Re: Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode

#11

Post by dabluecaboose »

venzaspa wrote: post #7

As an aside, I'm always surprised how US Gov websites look like they've been made in Dreamweaver in about 2006. Not even seemingly with a emphasis on usability either.

While it may not be flashy, I personally find the GOES sites extremely useful. Things are often simply placed at obvious and expected URLs, so scraping or monitoring is extremely easy.

I wrote the script that provides the GOES NavSum [1] and it pretty much just builds a standardized text file and drops it in the folder. The neat thing is that this makes it really easy to programmatically scrape and parse the data.

I wrote a personal script at one point that would download the GOES-EAST CONUS image and both EAST and WEST full disk images and composite them into a wallpaper. At one point my server had 500GB of archived GOES imagery. I liked to joke with my former coworkers that I could report image anomalies before they notice because my desktop wallpaper would change every 10 minutes.

[1] https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/resources/cemscs/navsum.txt

Re: Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode

#14

Post by delichon »

jubilanti wrote: post #8

A safehold is like maintenance mode, shutting down all non-essential systems, after it detects something is wrong. Doesn't necessarily mean it is gone for good, but not a good sign.

What is it that the space aliens don't want us to see? The obvious conclusion is that they are hiding their invasion fleet arrivals inside of hurricanes. The proof will be when the system comes back online and only permits us to see ordinary weather.

Re: Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode

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Post by dabluecaboose »

Former GOES engineer here. At this point I'd almost be surprised if 19 didn't have something go wrong. We had issues on almost every other satellite. GOES-17 had the loop heat pipe anomaly(Supposedly from someone stepping on it in the cleanroom...), GOES-15 (IIRC) had a micrometeorite strike, and GOES-13 had a fuel tank anomaly right before deorbit.

GOES-16 and GOES-17 are on-orbit spares, so in the extremely unlikely event of a total failure there's at least another spacecraft on-orbit ready to take up station.

That said, I have every faith in the GOES team to get to the bottom of this. They're the best, and I often wish I was back there working with them.

Re: Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode

#16

Post by xd1936 »

dabluecaboose wrote: post #11
venzaspa wrote: post #7

As an aside, I'm always surprised how US Gov websites look like they've been made in Dreamweaver in about 2006. Not even seemingly with a emphasis on usability either.

While it may not be flashy, I personally find the GOES sites extremely useful. Things are often simply placed at obvious and expected URLs, so scraping or monitoring is extremely easy. I wrote the script that provides the GOES NavSum [1] and it pretty much just builds a standardized text file and drops it in the folder. The neat thing is that this makes it really easy to programmatically scrape and parse the data. I…

Maybe if the UX was nicer, you wouldn't need to write scrapers and parsers and could just use their site.

Re: Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode

#17

Post by dylan604 »

kube-system wrote: post #9
venzaspa wrote: post #7

As an aside, I'm always surprised how US Gov websites look like they've been made in Dreamweaver in about 2006. Not even seemingly with a emphasis on usability either.

The ones that look old are old. The USG has newer design systems that you'll see used on many of the websites that have been redesigned more recently: https://designsystem.digital.gov/ This admin gutted both NOAAs budget and workforce so a website redesign is probably low priority at the moment.

Sites like NASA's APOD have not changed by design. So many third parties have been built up around sites that any change [w|c]ould break so much for no effective gain. Same holds true when people ask why things like NOTAMs and even NOAA's alerts are formatted the way they are.

Re: Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode

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Post by dabluecaboose »

ck2 wrote: post #12

is this old cache? * https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES19/ABI/CONUS/GEOCOLOR/2... * https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES19/ABI/CONUS/GEOCOLOR/G...

Looking at the timestamp, that's from yesterday. Nominal product delivery happens ~every 10 minutes.

Re: Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode

#19

Post by jefftk »

xd1936 wrote: post #16
dabluecaboose wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While it may not be flashy, I personally find the GOES sites extremely useful. Things are often simply placed at obvious and expected URLs, so scraping or monitoring is extremely easy. I wrote the script that provides the GOES NavSum [1] and it pretty much just builds a standardized text file and drops it in the folder. The neat thing is that this makes it really easy to programmatically scrape and parse the data. I…

Maybe if the UX was nicer, you wouldn't need to write scrapers and parsers and could just use their site.

They're scraping to automatically update the wallpaper on their desktop. That's not something a website can do, even with fantastic UX.

Re: Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode

#20

Post by throwway120385 »

delichon wrote: post #14
jubilanti wrote: post #8

A safehold is like maintenance mode, shutting down all non-essential systems, after it detects something is wrong. Doesn't necessarily mean it is gone for good, but not a good sign.

What is it that the space aliens don't want us to see? The obvious conclusion is that they are hiding their invasion fleet arrivals inside of hurricanes. The proof will be when the system comes back online and only permits us to see ordinary weather.

We really need to finish the Gollop Chamber.
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