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
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 29 )
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
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 ...

Selected FedEO OpenSearch Results (view all 5 results: browser , table )
NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) of Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Ar...
NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) of Northern Hemisphere (NH) Snow Cover Extent (SCE), Version 1. CLIMA...
CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: Climate Change and Natural Variability Impact Assessment, Extreme Precipitatio...
CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: Snow cover and hydroclimate studies Snow-atmosphere studies Snow-sea ice studi...
CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: Precipitation assessment; climate model evaluation; Cloud-precipitation-Radiat...

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