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CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
- GOES-15
-
Full Name
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - 15
aka GOES-P
Status
Operational (nominal)
Mission Agencies
NOAA
Launch Date
04 Mar 2010
Mission Links
mission site
EOL Date
Jun 2025
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
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 25
)
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
Geostationary Earth Orbit Land Surface Temperature Hourly North and South America 4 km V001
GHRSST Level 2P Central Pacific Regional Skin Sea Surface Temperature from the Geostationary Operati ...
GHRSST Level 2P Central Pacific Regional Skin Sea Surface Temperature from the Geostationary Operati ...
GHRSST Level 2P Western Atlantic Regional Skin Sea Surface Temperature from the Geostationary Operat ...
Selected FedEO OpenSearch Results
(total 30 results)
NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) of Northern Hemisphere (NH) Snow Cover Extent (SCE), Version 1. CLIMA ...
NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) of Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Ar ...
CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: Precipitation assessment; climate model evaluation; Cloud-precipitation-Radiat ...
CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: Snow cover and hydroclimate studies Snow-atmosphere studies Snow-sea ice studi ...
CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: Climate Change and Natural Variability Impact Assessment, Extreme Precipitatio ...
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
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