GOES-13 was launched in 2006 and retired by NOAA in 2018.
The Space Force repurposed GOES-13 in 2020 as the Electro-Optical Infrared Weather System EWS-G1.
The former GOES-13 satellite was renamed Electro-Optical Infrared Weather System-Geostationary (EWS-G) and provides imagery in support of U.S. Central Command.
The U.S. Air Force began collecting weather imagery in 2020 with the former GOES-13 satellite, which NOAA launched in 2006 and retired in 2018.
GOES-13 was renamed Electro-optical Infrared Weather System Geostationary (EWS-G1).
GOES-13 was launched in 2006 aboard a Boeing Delta IV rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
NOAA decommissioned GOES-13 in 2018 and replaced it with the GOES-16 spacecraft.
In 2019 the U.S. Air Force reached an agreement to take over GOES-13 from NOAA.
GOES-13 provided critical information during major U.S. weather events such as Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
GOES-13 was decommissioned by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in 2018.
NOAA moved GOES-13 to a slot at 60 degrees west in geostationary orbit to serve as a backup.
NOAA will operate GOES-13 on behalf of the U.S. Air Force during the satellite’s remaining life span once it reaches its new location and its instruments are checked out.
NOAA is transferring the decommissioned GOES-13 satellite to the U.S. Air Force to operate at a new orbital location.