Goes 15

GOES 15 (GOES-P)

GOES 15 during pre-launch processing
Mission type	Weather satellite
Operator	NOAA/NASA
COSPAR ID	2010-008A
Mission duration	10 years (planned)
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type	GOES-N series
Bus	BSS-601
Manufacturer	Boeing ITT Corporation
Power	2.3 kilowatts from solar array
Start of mission
Launch date	4 March 2010, 23:57 (2010-03-04T23:57Z) UTC
Rocket	Delta IV-M+(4,2)
Launch site	Cape Canaveral SLC-37B
Contractor	United Launch Alliance
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Geostationary
Longitude	135° West
Slot	GOES-WEST

GOES 15 launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station SLC-37B, March 4, 2010.

GOES 15, previously known as GOES-P, is an American weather satellite, which forms part of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) system operated by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The spacecraft was constructed by Boeing, and is the last of three GOES satellites to be based on the BSS-601 bus. The other BSS-601 GOES satellites; GOES 13 and GOES 14 were launched in May 2006 and June 2009 respectively.^[1] In total it was the sixteenth GOES satellite to be launched.

GOES 15 was launched atop a Delta IV-M+(4,2) rocket flying from Space Launch Complex 37B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.^[2][3] The launch occurred at 23:57 GMT on 4 March 2010, forty minutes into a sixty-minute launch window. Upon reaching geostationary orbit on 16 March, it was redesignated GOES 15.^[3][4] On December 6, 2011, it was activated as the GOES West satellite, replacing GOES 11.^[5]

At launch, the mass of the satellite was 3,238 kilograms (7,139 lb). It has a design life of ten years. Power is supplied by a single gallium arsenide solar panel, which provides up to 2.3 kilowatts of power. A 24 cell nickel hydrogen battery is used to provide power when the satellite is not in sunlight.^[6] Instruments aboard GOES15 include a five channel multispectral imager to capture visible light and infrared images of the continental United States, a sounder to take readings of atmospheric temperature and moisture, a solar x-ray imager to detect solar flares, and instruments to monitor the magnetosphere, cosmic background radiation and charged particles.^[6]

Media

References

External links

• GOES-P Press Kit
• GOES Timeline The History of Geostationary Satellites. From the launch of SMS-1 in May 1974 through the launch of GOES-13.
• GOES-15 image examples on the CIMSS Satellite Blog

Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites SMS GOES 1 GOES 2 GOES 3 1st Generation GOES 4 GOES 5 GOES 6 GOES-G GOES 7 2nd Generation GOES 8 GOES 9 GOES 10 GOES 11 GOES 12 3rd Generation GOES 13 GOES 14 GOES 15 4th Generation GOES-R GOES-S GOES-T GOES-U

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