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CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
- GOES-6
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Full Name
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - 6
Status
Mission complete
Mission Agencies
NOAA
Launch Date
28 Apr 1983
Mission Links
mission site
EOL Date
01 Jul 1989
EO Portal Info
NORAD Catalog #
14050
(
TLE
)
International Designator
1983-041A
Orbit Type
Geostationary
Orbit Period
Orbit Sense
N/A
Orbit Inclination
4.3 deg
Orbit Altitude
36000 km
Orbit Longitude
170 deg
Orbit LST
Repeat Cycle
Objectives and Applications
Meteorology, atmospheric dynamics, land surface, space environment, search and rescue, data collection, WEFAX (weather facsimile service).
Mission Measurements
Category
Parameter
Instrument(s)
Atmosphere
Atmospheric Humidity Fields
VAS
Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature
VAS
Liquid water and precipitation rate
VAS
Atmospheric Temperature Fields
VAS
Ocean
Surface temperature (ocean)
VAS
Mission Instruments
DCIS - Data Collection and Interrogation Service
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
VAS - VISSR Atmospheric Sounder
OpenSearch Datasets
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First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE) Cirrus 1 ISCCP Stage DX Pixel Level Cloud Product - Revised A ...
First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE) Marine Stratocumulus ISCCP Stage DX Pixel Level Cloud Product ...
Global Data Base of Monthly Mean Cloud and Surface Properties
International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) Stage B3 Reduced Radiances in Native Forma ...
International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) Stage D1 3-Hourly Cloud Products - Revised ...
International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) Stage D2 Monthly Cloud Products - Revised ...
International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) Stage DX Pixel Level Cloud Product - Revis ...
Past and Present Weather Data and Analysis Software from Unidata via WWW
Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) Release 3.0 Shortwave 3 hourly monthly UTC data in netcdf format
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