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CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
- GOES-7
-
Full Name
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - 7
Status
Mission complete
Mission Agencies
NOAA
Launch Date
26 Feb 1987
Mission Links
mission site
EOL Date
11 Jan 1996
EO Portal Info
NORAD Catalog #
17561
(
TLE
)
International Designator
1987-022A
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
Gravity and Magnetic Fields
Gravity, Magnetic and Geodynamic measurements
SEM (POES)
Ocean
Surface temperature (ocean)
VAS
Mission Instruments
DCIS - Data Collection and Interrogation Service
DCS (NOAA) - Data Collection System (NOAA)
GOES Comms - Communications package on GOES
S&R (GOES) - Search and Rescue
SEM (POES) - Space Environment Monitor
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
WEFAX - Weather Facsimile
OpenSearch Datasets
Selected IDN OpenSearch Results
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BOREAS Follow-On HMet-02 Area and Regional Hourly Gridded Met. Data, 1994-1996
BOREAS Follow-On MOD-01 Regional Daily Averaged Gridded Met. Data, 1994-1996
BOREAS RSS-14 GOES-7 Level-1 Visible, Infrared, and Water Vapor Images
BOREAS RSS-14 GOES-7 Level-1a Visible, Infrared, and Water Vapor Images
BOREAS RSS-14 GOES-7 Level-2 Shortwave and Longwave Radiation Images
BOREAS RSS-14 Level-3 Gridded Radiometer and Satellite Surface Radiation Images
COMET Case Study 001: The Storm of the Century (March 1993) Data at UCAR/JOSS/NOAA/CODIAC
COMET Case Study 002: Mid-west Snow Event Data at UCAR/JOSS/NOAA/CODIAC
COMET Case Study 003: Hurricane Erin 1995 Data at UCAR/JOSS/NOAA/CODIAC
COMET Case Study 005: Lake Effect Snow Over Lake Ontario 1995 Data at UCAR/JOSS/NOAA/CODIAC
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