End Of Life for NOAA 15 and 19?….not so fast…

UPDATE 07-31-2025 End of an Era: Decommissioning the Legacy POES Satellites The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has officially wrapped up End-of-Life (EOL) testing for NOAA-15 and NOAA-19, signaling the imminent decommissioning of these two venerable spacecraft. As the last operational platforms in the enduring NOAA Polar Operational Environmental Satellites (POES)…