Objectives and Applications
Meteorology (primary mission), search and rescue, space environment monitoring, data collection platform, data gathering, WEFAX. GOES-15 was placed into on-orbit storage on August 9, 2020.
Full Name
Electro-optical Infrared Weather System Geostationary - 2
aka GOES-15, GOES-P
Mission Status
Operational (extended)
Mission Agencies
Launch Date
04 Mar 2010
Mission Links
EOL Date
Dec 2028
Orbit Type
Geostationary
Orbit Period
Orbit Sense
N/A
Orbit Inclination
Orbit Altitude
36000 km
Orbit Longitude
61.91 deg
NORAD Catalog #
International Designator
A-DCS4 - A-DCS4 |
DCS (GOES) - Data Collection System (GOES) |
GOES Comms - Communications package on GOES |
Imager - Imager |
LRIT - Low-Rate Information Transmission |
S&R (GOES) - Search and Rescue |
SEM (GOES) - Space Environment Monitor |
Sounder - Sounder |
SXI - Solar X-ray Imager |
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