GOES-11 Mission

Identifiergoes-11NamesGeostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - 11GOES-11 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
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - 11
Mission Status
Mission complete
Mission Agencies
NOAA
Launch Date
03 May 2000
Mission Links
mission site
EOL Date
14 Dec 2011
EO Portal Info

Orbit Details

Orbit Type
Geostationary
Orbit Period
Orbit Sense
N/A
Orbit Inclination
Orbit Altitude
36000 km
Orbit Longitude
135 deg
Orbit LST
Repeat Cycle
NORAD Catalog #
26352
International Designator
2000-022A

Mission Instruments

DCS (NOAA) - Data Collection System (NOAA) goes-11_dcs-noaa
GOES Comms - Communications package on GOES goes-11_goes-comms
Imager - Imager goes-11_imager-goes
LRIT - Low-Rate Information Transmission goes-11_lrit
S&R (GOES) - Search and Rescue goes-11_s-r-goes
SEM (GOES) - Space Environment Monitor goes-11_sem-goes
Sounder - Sounder goes-11_sounder
WEFAX - Weather Facsimile goes-11_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

OpenSearch Datasets

Selected IDN OpenSearch Results (search all 24 )
Geostationary Earth Orbit Land Surface Temperature Hourly North and South America 4 km V002
NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW) Daily Global 5-km (0.05 degree) Satellite Coral Bleaching Heat Stress Mo ...
SatCORPS CERES GEO Edition 4 GOES-11 Northern Hemisphere Version 1.0
SatCORPS CERES GEO Edition 4 GOES-11 Southern Hemisphere Version 1.0
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 ...
MERRA-2 Monthly Gridded Innovations and Observations SNDRD1_G11 0.5 x 0.625 degree V1 (M2_SNDRD1_G11 ...
MERRA-2 Monthly Gridded Innovations and Observations SNDRD2_G11 0.5 x 0.625 degree V1 (M2_SNDRD2_G11 ...
Selected FedEO OpenSearch Results (view all 3 results: browser , table )
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...
CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: Precipitation assessment; climate model evaluation; Cloud-precipitation-Radiat...
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