The Boeing-built geostationary operational environmental satellite (GOES-15) has completed on-orbit testing.
The satellite has been entered into service by Nasa and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
GOES-15 has completed five months of on-orbit testing and demonstrated operational readiness of its subsystems, spacecraft instruments and communications services.
The satellite completes the fleet of advanced meteorological satellites built and launched by Boeing to provide enhanced weather monitoring over North America and refresh NOAA’s operational fleet.
The GOES satellites provide space-based Earth observation and global environment-sensing activities, delivering enhanced weather forecasting to protect life and property.
GOES-15 has begun delivering high-resolution photos from space including the first visible and infrared images of Earth taken by its imager instrument and the first image of the sun taken by its solar X-ray imager instrument.
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By GlobalDataThe on-orbit GOES constellation includes the three recent Boeing satellites, known as GOES-13, GOES-14 and GOES-15.
GOES-13 replaced GOES-12 to provide coverage for South America as part of the global Earth observing system, while GOES-14 is currently in a storage orbit of 105°W longitude, ready to become a primary operational satellite within the next two years.
GOES-15 will be placed in an on-orbit storage location at 105°W longitude.
