GOES-18 Mission

Identifiergoes-18NamesGeostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - 18GOES-18Aliasesgoes-t 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 - 18
aka GOES-T
Mission Status
Operational (nominal)
Mission Agencies
NOAA, NASA
Launch Date
01 Mar 2022
Mission Links
mission site | data access portal
EOL Date
Mar 2038
EO Portal Info

Orbit Details

Orbit Type
Geostationary
Orbit Period
Orbit Sense
N/A
Orbit Inclination
Orbit Altitude
36000 km
Orbit Longitude
-137 deg
Orbit LST
Repeat Cycle
NORAD Catalog #
51850
International Designator
2022-021A

Mission Instruments

ABI - Advanced Baseline Imager goes-18_abi
DCS (GOES) - Data Collection System (GOES) goes-18_dcs-goes
EXIS - Extreme Ultraviolet and X-ray Irradiance Sensors goes-18_exis
GLM - Geostationary Lightning Mapper goes-18_glm
Magnetometer (GOES) - Magnetometer (GOES) goes-18_magnetometer-goes
SEISS - Space Environment In Situ Suite goes-18_seiss
SUVI - Solar Ultraviolet Imager goes-18_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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