GOES 16

NOAA plans to place GOES-19 into service as GOES East after GOES-U completes on-orbit checkout, replacing GOES-16.

The GOES-R Series Program includes GOES-R (GOES-16, launched in 2016), GOES-S (GOES-17, launched in 2018), GOES-T (GOES-18), and GOES-U which is scheduled to launch in 2024.

After completing checkout of its instruments and systems, GOES-T will enter service as GOES West and operate in tandem with GOES-16 in the GOES East position.

GOES-R launched in November 2016 and was renamed GOES-16, operating from the GOES East slot at 75 degrees west in geostationary orbit.

Once operational and in service, GOES‑18 will operate in tandem with GOES‑16, which occupies the GOES‑East position.

NOAA decommissioned GOES-13 in 2018 and replaced it with the GOES-16 spacecraft.

NOAA upgraded its Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting computer model for the 2020 hurricane season to ingest data from GOES-16 and GOES-17 as well as NOAA-20, Suomi NPP, Himawari-8, Metop spacecraft, and COSMIC-2.

NOAA no longer needs space weather data from GOES-14 because GOES-16 is generating more advanced space weather data and GOES-17 provides space weather data in a developmental system.

GOES-16 operates at the GOES-East orbital slot at 75 degrees west longitude.

GOES-16 is operating at the GOES-East orbital location.

NOAA launched GOES-16 and the first spacecraft in the Joint Polar Satellite System in 2017.

GOES-16 and GOES-17 provide two next-generation geostationary satellites with comparable performance for NOAA.

NOAA launched Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-16 (GOES-16) in 2016 with four space weather instruments.

GOES-T was slated to launch in 2020 with the same sensors as GOES-16 and GOES-17 before NASA discovered problems with the Advanced Baseline Imager’s cooling system.

GOES-16’s Advanced Baseline Imager has shown some evidence of reduced functionality in its loop heat pipes, but that issue has not affected the ABI performance on GOES-16.