Objectives and Applications
Meteorology (primary mission), search and rescue, space environment monitoring, data collection platform, data gathering.
Full Name
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - 18
aka GOES-T
Mission Status
Operational (nominal)
Mission Agencies
Launch Date
01 Mar 2022
Mission Links
EOL Date
Dec 2038
Orbit Type
Geostationary
Orbit Period
Orbit Sense
N/A
Orbit Inclination
Orbit Altitude
36000 km
Orbit Longitude
NORAD Catalog #
International Designator
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 |
| Category | Parameter | Instrument(s) |
| Atmosphere | Aerosols | 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 Fields | Gravity, Magnetic and Geodynamic measurements | Magnetometer (GOES) |
| Land | Surface temperature (land) | ABI |
| Multi-purpose imagery (land) | ABI |
| Ocean | Surface temperature (ocean) | ABI |
| Multi-purpose imagery (ocean) | ABI |