Objectives and Applications
Meteorology (primary mission), search and rescue, space environment monitoring, data collection platform, data gathering, WEFAX.
Full Name
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - 11
Mission Status
Mission complete
Mission Agencies
Launch Date
03 May 2000
Mission Links
EOL Date
14 Dec 2011
Orbit Type
Geostationary
Orbit Period
Orbit Sense
N/A
Orbit Inclination
Orbit Altitude
36000 km
Orbit Longitude
135 deg
NORAD Catalog #
International Designator
DCS (NOAA) - Data Collection System (NOAA) |
GOES Comms - Communications package on GOES |
| Imager - Imager |
| LRIT - Low-Rate Information Transmission |
| S&R (GOES) - Search and Rescue |
| SEM (GOES) - Space Environment Monitor |
| Sounder - Sounder |
| WEFAX - Weather Facsimile |