Topic: Emergency Decommissioning of NOAA-19 on August 13, 2025 1655 UTC 

Date/Time Issued: August 13, 2025 1715 UTC

Product(s) or Data Impacted: NOAA-19 data products

Date/Time of Initial Impact: August 13, 2025 1655 UTC

Date/Time of expected end Time: N/A Decommissioning 

Duration: Permanent

Details/Specifics: On August 9, 2025 NOAA-19 encountered a battery failure. This battery failure jeopardizes the ability to ensure safe operations of the spacecraft. Based on NOAA’s requirement to responsibly manage on-orbit assets, NOAA-19 was passivated on August 13, 2025 Rev 85130 at 1655 UTC. This decommission was performed less than 1 week from when the planned decommission was scheduled to take place.

NOAA-19 is a legacy Polar Operational Environmental Satellites (POES) satellite and is operated with no performance or latency requirements. Users should transition to NOAA's Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS).  JPSS provides global observations that serve as the backbone of both short- and long-term forecasts, including those that help us predict and prepare for severe weather events. The five satellites scheduled in the fleet are the currently-flying NOAA/NASA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite, NOAA-20, previously known as JPSS-1, NOAA-21, previously known as JPSS-2, and the upcoming JPSS-3 and JPSS-4 satellites.

Contact Information for Further Information: Please email User Services at spsd.userservices@noaa.gov 

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