CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY - GOES-10 -
Full Name Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - 10 Status Mission complete
Mission Agencies NOAA Launch Date 25 Apr 1997
Mission Links mission site EOL Date 15 Jan 2006
EO Portal Info NORAD Catalog # 24786 (TLE)
International Designator 1997-019A
Orbit Type Geostationary Orbit Period
Orbit Sense N/A Orbit Inclination
Orbit Altitude 36000 km Orbit Longitude 135 deg
Orbit LST Repeat Cycle
Objectives and Applications Meteorology (primary mission), search and rescue, space environment monitoring, data collection platform, data gathering, WEFAX.
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
Mission Instruments
DCS (NOAA) - Data Collection System (NOAA)
GOES Comms - Communications package on GOES
Imager - Imager
S&R (GOES) - Search and Rescue
SEM (GOES) - Space Environment Monitor
Sounder - Sounder
WEFAX - Weather Facsimile
OpenSearch Datasets Selected IDN OpenSearch Results (search all 32 )
CAPS Project Data Products
CERES GEO Cloud Retrievals in ISCCP-D2like Format Daytime Edition3A
CERES MODIS and GEO Cloud Retrievals in ISCCP-D2like Format Daytime Edition3A
Climatology for NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW) Daily Global 5km Satellite Coral Bleaching Heat Stress M ...
COMET Case Study 021: Wichita, Kansas Halloween Flood Data at UCAR/JOSS/NOAA/CODIAC
COMET Case Study 023: Upper Midwest U.S. Winter Severe Weather 1998 Data at UCAR/JOSS/NOAA/CODIAC
COMET Case Study 025: Salt Lake City Tornado/Long Island Flood 1999 Data at UCAR/JOSS/NOAA/CODIAC
COMET Case Study 026: Pacific Northwest Winter Storm 1999 Data at UCAR/JOSS/NOAA/CODIAC
COMET Case Study 029: Montana Fire Weather-Dry Cold Front 1999 Data at UCAR/JOSS/NOAA/CODIAC
COMET Case Study 030: Null Event: Eastern Colorado Snowstorm 2000 Data at UCAR/JOSS/NOAA/CODIAC

Selected FedEO OpenSearch Results (view all 3 results: browser , table )
CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: Precipitation assessment; climate model evaluation; Cloud-precipitation-Radiat...
NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) of Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Ar...
CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: Climate Change and Natural Variability Impact Assessment, Extreme Precipitatio...

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