GOES-15

GOES-15 served NOAA weather operations before becoming EWS-G2 for military weather coverage. It remains a useful example of long-lived geostationary infrastructure.

Technical specifications

3D model is aproximate

CATEGORY

Weather

TYPE

Geo Dish

COUNTRY

United States

OPERATOR

NOAA / U.S. Space Force

LAUNCH DATE

Mar 4, 2010

LAUNCH SITE

Cape Canaveral

ORBIT CLASS

GEO

ALTITUDE · KM

35,785

ORBITAL PERIOD · MIN

1,436.04

INCLINATION · DEG

1.28

APOGEE · KM

35,808

PERIGEE · KM

35,762

How we source data

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