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CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
- GOES-8
-
Full Name
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - 8
Status
Mission complete
Mission Agencies
NOAA
Launch Date
13 Apr 1994
Mission Links
mission site
EOL Date
04 Jan 2003
EO Portal Info
NORAD Catalog #
23051
(
TLE
)
International Designator
1994-022A
Orbit Type
Geostationary
Orbit Period
Orbit Sense
N/A
Orbit Inclination
0.09 deg
Orbit Altitude
36000 km
Orbit Longitude
195 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)
Land
Surface temperature (land)
Imager
,
Sounder
Multi-purpose imagery (land)
Imager
Ocean
Surface temperature (ocean)
Imager
,
Sounder
Multi-purpose imagery (ocean)
Imager
Mission Instruments
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
OpenSearch Datasets
Selected IDN OpenSearch Results
(
search all 94
)
ARM/GCIP Near-Surface Observation Data Set - 1996 (NESOB-96) at UCAR/JOSS/NOAA/CODIAC
ARM/GCIP Near-Surface Observation Data Set - 1997 (NESOB-97) at UCAR/JOSS/NOAA/CODIAC
Asian Pacific Regional Aerosol Characterization Experiment (ACE-Asia) at UCAR/JOSS/NOAA/CODIAC
BOREAS Follow-On HMet-01 Level-2 GOES-8 1996 Shortwave and Longwave Radiation
BOREAS RSS-14 GOES-8 Level-1 Visible, Infrared and Water Vapor Images
BOREAS RSS-14 GOES-8 Level-1a Visible, Infrared and Water Vapor Images
BOREAS RSS-14 Level-3 Gridded Radiometer and Satellite Surface Radiation Images
CAMEX-3 GOES-8 PRODUCTS V1
CAMEX-4 GOES-8 PRODUCTS V1
CERES GEO Cloud Retrievals in ISCCP-D2like Format Daytime Edition3A
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