GOES-19 Mission

Identifiergoes-19NamesGeostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - 19GOES-19Aliasesgoes-u About identifiers
SeriesGOESgoes

Objectives and Applications

Meteorology (primary mission), search and rescue, space environment monitoring, data collection platform, data gathering.

Mission Summary

Full Name
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - 19
aka GOES-U
Mission Status
Operational (nominal)
Mission Agencies
NOAA, NASA
Launch Date
24 Jun 2024
Mission Links
mission site | data access portal
EOL Date
Dec 2043
EO Portal Info

Orbit Details

Orbit Type
Geostationary
Orbit Period
Orbit Sense
N/A
Orbit Inclination
Orbit Altitude
36000 km
Orbit Longitude
-75.2 deg
Orbit LST
Repeat Cycle
NORAD Catalog #
60133
International Designator
2024-119A

Mission Instruments

ABI - Advanced Baseline Imager goes-19_abi
CCOR-1 - Compact Coronagraph - 1 goes-19_ccor-1
DCS (GOES) - Data Collection System (GOES) goes-19_dcs-goes
EXIS - Extreme Ultraviolet and X-ray Irradiance Sensors goes-19_exis
GLM - Geostationary Lightning Mapper goes-19_glm
Magnetometer (GOES) - Magnetometer (GOES) goes-19_magnetometer-goes
SEISS - Space Environment In Situ Suite goes-19_seiss
SUVI - Solar Ultraviolet Imager goes-19_suvi-goes

Mission Measurements

CategoryParameterInstrument(s)
AtmosphereAerosols ABI
Atmospheric Winds ABI
Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature ABI
Cloud particle properties and profile ABI
Liquid water and precipitation rate ABI
Radiation budget ABI
Lightning Detection GLM
Gravity and Magnetic FieldsGravity, Magnetic and Geodynamic measurements Magnetometer (GOES)
LandSurface temperature (land) ABI
Multi-purpose imagery (land) ABI
OceanSurface temperature (ocean) ABI
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