![]() Artistic rendering of GOES-U once deployed | |
Names | Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-U |
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Mission type | Earth weather forecasting |
Operator | NOAA / NASA |
COSPAR ID | 2024-119A |
SATCAT no. | 60133![]() |
Mission duration | 15 years (planned) 52 days, 2 hours, 59 minutes (in progress) |
Spacecraft properties | |
Bus | A2100 |
Manufacturer | Lockheed Martin |
Launch mass | 5,000 kg (11,023 lb) |
Dry mass | 2,925 kg (6,449 lb) |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 25 June 2024 5:26pm EDT (21:26 GMT)[1] |
Rocket | Falcon Heavy |
Launch site | Kennedy Space Center, LC-39A |
Contractor | SpaceX |
Entered service | Spring 2025 (planned) |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric orbit |
Regime | Geostationary orbit |
Longitude | 75.2° west (planned)[2] |
Semi-major axis | 41,845 km (26,001 mi)[3] |
Eccentricity | 0.0045031[3] |
Perigee altitude | 35,286.4 km (21,926.0 mi)[3] |
Apogee altitude | 35,663.3 km (22,160.1 mi)[3] |
Inclination | 0.1204°[1] |
Period | 24 hours[3] |
Epoch | July 12, 2024 |
![]() GOES-U mission insignia |
GOES-19 (designated GOES-U prior to reaching geostationary orbit) is a weather satellite, the fourth and last of the GOES-R series of satellites operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The GOES-R series will extend the availability of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) system until 2036. The satellite is built by Lockheed Martin, based on the A2100 platform.[4][5]
Launch
[edit]The satellite was successfully launched into space atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on 25 June 2024 at 5:26pm EDT (21:26 GMT),[1] from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, United States. The redesign of the loop heat pipe to prevent an anomaly, as seen in GOES-17, is not expected to delay the launch as it did with GOES-T.[6]
GOES-U also carries a copy of the Naval Research Laboratory's Compact CORonagraph (CCOR) instrument which, along with the CCOR planned for Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1), will allow continued monitoring of solar wind after the retirement of the NASA-ESA SOHO satellite in 2025.[7][8]
GOES-U has a dry mass of 2,925 kg (6,449 lb) and a fueled mass of 5,000 kg (11,023 lb).[9]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Garofalo, Meredith (25 June 2024). "Powerful GOES-U weather satellite launches to orbit atop SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket". space.com.
- ^ "NOAA's GOES-U Reaches Geostationary Orbit, Now Designated GOES-19". NESDIS. NOAA. 8 July 2024. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ a b c d e n2yo.com. "GOES-19 (GOES-U)". Retrieved 14 July 2024.
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- ^ Andrews, Hillary (27 March 2024). "GOES-U weather satellite to launch June 25 after leak causes delay". FOX Weather. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
- ^ Werner, Debra (9 January 2019). "Lockheed Martin halts work on GOES-T to wait for instrument fix". SpaceNews. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
- ^ Vargas, Marco (7 January 2019). "The NOAA Space Weather Follow-On Program to Ensure Continuity of CME Imagery and Solar Wind Space-Based Observations". American Meteorilogical Society 99th Annual Meeting. AMS. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
- ^ "Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1". NESDIS. NOAA. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
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- ^ "GOES-R Series Spacecraft Overview". GOES-R Series. Retrieved 17 January 2024.