Use the Product Listbox to view the POES and GOES satellite
coverage on this page. At present, NOAA supports a two-POES configuration, each
satellite scanning a point on the earth twice daily. The two satellite orbits
are staggered such that one satellite will always provide local coverage once
during the morning and then twelve hours later in the early evening and the other
during the early afternoon and nighttime just past local midnight. This two-POES
configuration allows for local coverage every six hours at lower and middle latitudes,
and more frequent coverage at high latitudes due to an overlap in the coverage
between orbits.