EWS-G Satellite Mission Summary

CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY - EWS-G -

Full Name

Electro-optical Infrared Weather System-Geostationary
aka EWS-G2, GOES-15

Status

Operational (extended)

Mission Agencies

USSF, NOAA

Launch Date

04 Mar 2010

Mission Links

mission site

EOL Date

Dec 2028

EO Portal Info

NORAD Catalog #

36411 (TLE)

International Designator

2010-008A

Orbit Type

Geostationary

Orbit Period

Orbit Sense

N/A

Orbit Inclination

Orbit Altitude

36000 km

Orbit Longitude

135 deg

Orbit LST

Repeat Cycle

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.

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
Land	Surface temperature (land)	Imager, Sounder
	Multi-purpose imagery (land)	Imager
Ocean	Surface temperature (ocean)	Imager, Sounder
	Multi-purpose imagery (ocean)	Imager

Mission Instruments

A-DCS4 - A-DCS4

DCS (GOES-R Series) - Data Collection System (NOAA, GOES-16)

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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