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CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
- EWS-G1
-
Full Name
Electro-optical Infrared Weather System Geostationary - 1
aka GOES-13, GOES-N
Status
Operational (extended)
Mission Agencies
USSF
Launch Date
24 May 2006
Mission Links
mission site
EOL Date
Mar 2022
EO Portal Info
NORAD Catalog #
29155
(
TLE
)
International Designator
2006-018A
Orbit Type
Geostationary
Orbit Period
Orbit Sense
N/A
Orbit Inclination
Orbit Altitude
36000 km
Orbit Longitude
75 deg
Orbit LST
Repeat Cycle
Objectives and Applications
Meteorology (primary mission), search and rescue, space environment monitoring, data collection platform, data gathering, WEFAX.
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
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