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.
Full Name
Electro-optical Infrared Weather System-Geostationary
aka EWS-G2, GOES-15
Mission Status
Operational (extended)
Mission Agencies
Launch Date
04 Mar 2010
Mission Links
EOL Date
Dec 2028
Orbit Type
Geostationary
Orbit Period
Orbit Sense
N/A
Orbit Inclination
Orbit Altitude
36000 km
Orbit Longitude
135 deg
NORAD Catalog #
International Designator
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 |
Unable to reach IDN OpenSearch.