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CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
- GOES-9
-
Full Name
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - 9
Status
Mission complete
Mission Agencies
NOAA
Launch Date
23 May 1995
Mission Links
mission site
EOL Date
15 Jan 2005
EO Portal Info
NORAD Catalog #
23581
(
TLE
)
International Designator
1995-025A
Orbit Type
Geostationary
Orbit Period
Orbit Sense
N/A
Orbit Inclination
Orbit Altitude
36000 km
Orbit Longitude
255 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
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Case Studies of the Oregon Floods of February and November 1996
CERES GEO Cloud Retrievals in ISCCP-D2like Format Daytime Edition3A
CERES MODIS and GEO Cloud Retrievals in ISCCP-D2like Format Daytime Edition3A
Climatology for NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW) Daily Global 5km Satellite Coral Bleaching Heat Stress M ...
COMET Case Study 007: High Plains Snow Event 1996 Data at UCAR/JOSS/NOAA/CODIAC
COMET Case Study 008: California Flood 1996-1997 Data at UCAR/JOSS/NOAA/CODIAC
COMET Case Study 010: Southeastern U.S. Severe Weather 1997 Data at UCAR/JOSS/NOAA/CODIAC
COMET Case Study 011: Fort Collins, Colorado Flash Flood Event Data at UCAR/JOSS/NOAA/CODIAC
COMET Case Study 013: Southern California Floods/Florida Tornadoes 1998 Data at UCAR/JOSS/NOAA/CODIA ...
COMET Case Study 014: Midwest Cold Season Synoptic Storm 1996 Data at UCAR/JOSS/NOAA/CODIAC
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