THE CEOS DATABASE : MISSION SUMMARY

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CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY - GOES-15 -

Full Name

Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - 15
aka GOES-P

Status

Operational (extended)

Mission Agencies

NOAA

Launch Date

04 Mar 2010

Mission Links

mission site

EOL Date

Dec 2028

EO Portal Info

NORAD Catalog #

36411 (TLE)

International Designator

2010-008A

Orbit Type

Geostationary

Orbit Period

Orbit Sense

N/A

Orbit Inclination

Orbit Altitude

36000 km

Orbit Longitude

135 deg

Orbit LST

Repeat Cycle

Objectives and Applications

Meteorology (primary mission), search and rescue, space environment monitoring, data collection platform, data gathering, WEFAX. GOES-15 was placed into on-orbit storage on August 9, 2020.

Mission Measurements

Category	Parameter	Instrument(s)
Atmosphere	Aerosols	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
Gravity and Magnetic Fields	Gravity, Magnetic and Geodynamic measurements	SEM (GOES), SXI
Land	Surface temperature (land)	Imager, Sounder
	Multi-purpose imagery (land)	Imager
Ocean	Surface temperature (ocean)	Imager, Sounder
	Multi-purpose imagery (ocean)	Imager