EWS-G1 Mission

Identifierews-g1NamesElectro-optical Infrared Weather System Geostationary - 1EWS-G1Aliasesgoes-13goes-n About identifiers
SeriesGOESgoes

Objectives and Applications

Meteorology (primary mission), search and rescue, space environment monitoring, data collection platform, data gathering, WEFAX.

Mission Summary

Full Name
Electro-optical Infrared Weather System Geostationary - 1
aka GOES-13, GOES-N
Mission Status
Mission complete
Mission Agencies
USSF
Launch Date
24 May 2006
Mission Links
mission site
EOL Date
31 Oct 2023
EO Portal Info

Orbit Details

Orbit Type
Geostationary
Orbit Period
Orbit Sense
N/A
Orbit Inclination
Orbit Altitude
36000 km
Orbit Longitude
75 deg
Orbit LST
Repeat Cycle
NORAD Catalog #
29155
International Designator
2006-018A

Mission Instruments

A-DCS4 - A-DCS4 ews-g1_a-dcs4
DCS (GOES) - Data Collection System (GOES) ews-g1_dcs-goes
GOES Comms - Communications package on GOES ews-g1_goes-comms
Imager - Imager ews-g1_imager-goes
LRIT - Low-Rate Information Transmission ews-g1_lrit
S&R (GOES) - Search and Rescue ews-g1_s-r-goes
SEM (GOES) - Space Environment Monitor ews-g1_sem-goes
Sounder - Sounder ews-g1_sounder
SXI - Solar X-ray Imager ews-g1_sxi

Mission Measurements

CategoryParameterInstrument(s)
AtmosphereAerosols 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
LandSurface temperature (land) Imager, Sounder
Multi-purpose imagery (land) Imager
OceanSurface temperature (ocean) Imager, Sounder
Multi-purpose imagery (ocean) Imager

OpenSearch Datasets

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