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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
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Supposedly from someone stepping on it in the cleanroom I would be too embarrassed to return to work if I did that.
How do they track that? Is there a log book where someone has to write to? "Observed EMP555 step on loop heat pipe. Conducted visual inspection of the affected area; no damage found, pipe remains nominal."
I'm sure they take detailed close out photos and likely video of the entire handling process.
Re: Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode
#53status page says
SAFEHOLD HAS BEEN RESOLVED
* https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/operations/goes/status.html
* https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/operations/goes/status.html#datafi...
Re: Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode
#54I love how "safe mode" for a satellite is basically: "extend solar panels, turn self towards sun, don't do anything unnecessary, wait for further instructions".
They should rebrand it as "Praise the Sun" mode. We are sorry, GOES-19 is temporarily unavailable during a planned solar worship break of indefinite length.
Just don’t point the thing at any maggots.
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#55As 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…
There's an app that updates the desktop https://downlinkapp.com/
Re: Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hah originally making an animation was my plan, but as so often happens it fell on the backburner and then I ended up with a massive archive. I just deleted it once I realized that A) Better archives exist elsewhere and B) I wasn't going to do anything with it. I still have the script somewhere. I should throw an LLM at it and see if I can't sand off a few rough edges.
It would be great if an LLM could be trained to generate interpolated images between the 10m intervals of the full disk geocolor product. The animations would be fantastic. I've got about 2.5 years worth of that imagery if someone knows a good way to do this on a budget.
I doubt you need an LLM for that, a diffusion model or perhaps even a deep CNN could probably do a passable job. You could train it by taking consecutive triplets of images [A, B, C] and providing [A, C] as inputs with B as the expected output.
Re: Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode
#57Anyone interested in accessing GOES data at scale will find this interesting - I created a Zarr index over the 7 billion chunks of data in the GOES-16 archive. https://www.earthmover.io/blog/virtual-zarr
I used to work for NOAA. I think the scientists would flip out over this. Did you share it?
Re: Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode
#58As 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 link OP submitted appears to be a webpage displaying a screenshot of another web page, and the image aspect ratio has been altered. It's so comically bad it had to be on purpose, or someone is doing their web dev in MS Word.
Edit: I think actually it's a screenshot of a screenshot even, and this appears to be the entire design of spaceweather.gov. What in the holy heck is going on there? This has to be a top 10 worst website designs of all time.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
They're scraping to automatically update the wallpaper on their desktop. That's not something a website can do, even with fantastic UX.
"That's not something a website can do, even with fantastic UX." Actually, I used to have a live-updating website AS MY BACKGROUND. Windows 98 and Me, website used AJAX and Comet to make it happen. You used to be able to set websites as your desktop background.
I'm sure that was 100% secure, too. /s (I did the same thing back then.)
Re: Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
They should rebrand it as "Praise the Sun" mode. We are sorry, GOES-19 is temporarily unavailable during a planned solar worship break of indefinite length.
The cool thing about geostationary orbits is that they're far enough out that they get 24/7 sun (Except around the equinoxes). We could easily fit a solar worship break in the schedule in between imaging and momentum dumps.
> a solar worship break
It'd be easy to optimize with some additional religions too, since from that distance pretty much all possible Earthly [0] holy sites are in the same direction.
[0] I just stumbled onto a fun grammar question! Is it "earthly" (non-supernatural) or is it Earthly (proper-adjective related to the planet), or both? I submit that it's possible to have an "earthly Martian holy-site", and therefore only the capitalized version works here. :p