GEO Space Radiation Environment

IMPORTANT NOTICE: GOES-16 Data Stream Discontinued! GOES-16 has been replaced by GOES-19 as NOAA's primary GOES East satellite. GOES-16 has transitioned to backup status in NOAA's operational geostationary constellation, and its real-time data stream has been discontinued. We are currently working to implement visualization of GOES-19 data, which now serves as NOAA's primary geostationary satellite for the Western Hemisphere. GOES-19 provides the same environmental monitoring capabilities as GOES-16, with additional enhancements. We apologize for any inconvenience and expect to have our GOES-19 data visualizations available soon. Please check back for updates.

GOES-16 is a geostationary environmental satellite launched in 2016 and is operated by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Onboard instruments include sensors to measure the space environment.

GOES-16 Omnidirectional Differential Electron Fluxes

Acknowledgments

The post-processing and the display of near real time plots of GOES-16 measurements is an initiative by SPARC.

We acknowledge NOAA for open access of GOES-16 magnetometer and uni-directional electron flux data. We thank Juan Rodriguez for useful discussion regarding his work in “GOES 13-15 MAGE/PD Pitch Angles Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document” (Version 1.0), on which SPARC based the implementation of the omnidirectional flux derivation. The development of the data processing software was partially supported from the ESA GSTP activity “Space Radiation Effects Nowcast (SREN) platform” under the Contract Nr. 4000127629/19/NL/BJ/va. SPARC acknowledges Hugh Evans (ESA TO officer for SREN) and Dave Pitchford for feedback provided.