CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY - GOES-16 -
Full Name Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - 16
aka GOES-R
Status Operational (nominal)
Mission Agencies NOAA, NASA Launch Date 19 Nov 2016
Mission Links mission site EOL Date Dec 2033
EO Portal Info NORAD Catalog # 41866 (TLE)
International Designator 2016-071A
Orbit Type Geostationary Orbit Period
Orbit Sense N/A Orbit Inclination
Orbit Altitude 36000 km Orbit Longitude
Orbit LST Repeat Cycle
Objectives and Applications Meteorology (primary mission), search and rescue, space environment monitoring, data collection platform, data gathering.
Mission Measurements
CategoryParameterInstrument(s)
AtmosphereAerosols ABI
Atmospheric Winds ABI
Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature ABI
Cloud particle properties and profile ABI
Liquid water and precipitation rate ABI
Radiation budget ABI
Lightning Detection GLM
Gravity and Magnetic FieldsGravity, Magnetic and Geodynamic measurements Magnetometer (GOES)
LandSurface temperature (land) ABI
Multi-purpose imagery (land) ABI
OceanSurface temperature (ocean) ABI
Multi-purpose imagery (ocean) ABI
Mission Instruments
ABI - Advanced Baseline Imager
DCS (GOES-R Series) - Data Collection System (NOAA, GOES-16)
EXIS - Extreme Ultraviolet and X-ray Irradiance Sensors
GLM - Geostationary Lightning Mapper
Magnetometer (GOES) - Magnetometer (GOES)
SEISS - Space Environment In Situ Suite
SUVI - Solar Ultraviolet Imager
OpenSearch Datasets Selected IDN OpenSearch Results (search all 32 )
ABI/GOES-16 Dark Target Aerosol 10-Min L2 Full Disk 10 km
ACTIVATE GOES-16 Supplementary Data Products
Climatology for NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW) Daily Global 5km Satellite Coral Bleaching Heat Stress M ...
Dynamics and Chemistry of the Summer Stratosphere Model Output
Dynamics and Chemistry of the Summer Stratosphere Radar and Satellite (Remote Sensing) Data Products
FIREX-AQ Satellite And Related Ancillary Data
Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) Cluster Integrity, Exception Resolution, and Reclustering Algor ...
GHRSST L3C hourly America Region sub-skin Sea Surface Temperature v1.0 from ABI on GOES16 produced b ...
GHRSST L3C OSISAF SSTskin dataset v1.0 from GOES16 ABI in East position (GDS version 2)
GHRSST Level 4 G1SST Global Foundation Sea Surface Temperature Analysis (GDS version 1)

Selected FedEO OpenSearch Results (view all 1 results: browser , table )
GOES-16 Cloud & Moisture Imagery

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