CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY - GOES-14 -
Full Name Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - 14
aka GOES-O
Status Operational (extended)
Mission Agencies NOAA Launch Date 27 Jun 2009
Mission Links mission site EOL Date Apr 2030
EO Portal Info NORAD Catalog # 35491 (TLE)
International Designator 2009-033A
Orbit Type Geostationary Orbit Period
Orbit Sense N/A Orbit Inclination
Orbit Altitude 36000 km Orbit Longitude 105 deg
Orbit LST Repeat Cycle
Objectives and Applications Meteorology (primary mission), search and rescue, space environment monitoring, data collection platform, data gathering, WEFAX. GOES-14 was placed into on-orbit storage on February 13, 2013.
Mission Measurements
CategoryParameterInstrument(s)
AtmosphereAerosols Sounder
Atmospheric Humidity Fields Sounder
Atmospheric Winds Imager
Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature Imager, Sounder
Liquid water and precipitation rate Imager, Sounder
Ozone Sounder
Radiation budget Imager
Atmospheric Temperature Fields Sounder
LandSurface temperature (land) Imager, Sounder
Multi-purpose imagery (land) Imager
OceanSurface temperature (ocean) Imager, Sounder
Multi-purpose imagery (ocean) Imager
Mission Instruments
A-DCS4 - A-DCS4
DCS (GOES-R Series) - Data Collection System (NOAA, GOES-16)
GOES Comms - Communications package on GOES
Imager - Imager
LRIT - Low-Rate Information Transmission
S&R (GOES) - Search and Rescue
SEM (GOES) - Space Environment Monitor
Sounder - Sounder
SXI - Solar X-ray Imager
OpenSearch Datasets Selected IDN OpenSearch Results (search all 12 )
Arctic Satellite Composite Imagery - Infrared
Arctic Satellite Composite Imagery - Longwave Infrared
Arctic Satellite Composite Imagery - Shortwave Infrared
Arctic Satellite Composite Imagery - Visible
CERES GEO Cloud Retrievals in ISCCP-D2like Format Daytime Edition3A
CERES MODIS and GEO Cloud Retrievals in ISCCP-D2like Format Daytime Edition3A
Climatology for NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW) Daily Global 5km Satellite Coral Bleaching Heat Stress M ...
Geostationary Earth Orbit Land Surface Temperature Hourly North and South America 4 km V002
GPM Ground Validation GOES 14 Visible and Infrared Images IPHEx V1
NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW) Daily Global 5-km (0.05 degree) Satellite Coral Bleaching Heat Stress Mo ...

Selected FedEO OpenSearch Results (view all 1 results: browser , table )
CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: Precipitation assessment; climate model evaluation; Cloud-precipitation-Radiat...

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