[GabrielF00]

I was talking to someone who worked as an engineer for NASA for decades. He said the work he was proudest of was on the GOES satellites, because they save lives every year by providing data on extreme weather. It looks like weather satellite operations are going to be hardest hit by these cuts.

[Aaronn]

Yep, these satellites are very important to weather forcasting. The GOES-R (now GOES-16) satellite launched recently, here are a couple of videos taken by it over the last few days:

https://twitter.com/wxlada/status/837417069423513601 https://twitter.com/wxbrad/status/837508892611465216

and a full disk picture: https://twitter.com/NOAASatellites/status/835240421647347713