Objectives and Applications
Meteorology (primary mission), search and rescue, space environment monitoring, data collection platform, data gathering, WEFAX.
Full Name
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - 8
Mission Status
Mission complete
Mission Agencies
Launch Date
13 Apr 1994
Mission Links
EOL Date
04 Jan 2003
Orbit Type
Geostationary
Orbit Period
Orbit Sense
N/A
Orbit Inclination
0.09 deg
Orbit Altitude
36000 km
Orbit Longitude
195 deg
NORAD Catalog #
International Designator
DCIS - Data Collection and Interrogation Service |
| DCS (NOAA) - Data Collection System (NOAA) |
GOES Comms - Communications package on GOES |
| Imager - Imager |
| S&R (GOES) - Search and Rescue |
| SEM (GOES) - Space Environment Monitor |
| SEM/EPS - Energetic Particles Sensor |
| SEM/HEPAD - High Energy Proton and Alpha Particles Detector |
| SEM/MAG - Magnetometer |
| SEM/XRS-EUV - X-Ray Sensor - Extreme Ultra-Violet Sensor |
| Sounder - Sounder |
| WEFAX - Weather Facsimile |