Weather & Forecasting · Recorded milestone
Next-generation weather imagers
Recorded year2015
Japan's Himawari-8 enters service, imaging the whole disc of Earth every ten minutes in 16 colour bands; the US GOES-16 follows in 2017.
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.