GOES-16

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Image of the western hemisphere

GOES-16 (formerly GOES-R ) is an American weather satellite from the GOES series. The launch took place on 19 November 2016, an Atlas V . After a year of test operation, GOES-16 went into operation on December 18, 2017.

The satellite uses the A2100 satellite bus and is designed for a service life of 10 years. He can photograph the part of the earth visible from his geostationary orbit every 15 minutes and the core area of ​​the USA even every five minutes.

Instruments

GOES-16 has the six instruments ABI (Advanced Baseline Imager), GLM (Geostationary Lightning Mapper), EXIS (Extreme Ultraviolet and X-ray Irradiance Sensors), SUVI (Solar Ultraviolet Imager), Space Environment In-Situ Suite (SEISS) and a magnetometer .

ABI is a camera with 16 spectral bands . Compared to the old GOES satellites, the resolution has been increased four times.

Details on the bands of the multispectral camera:

tape Wavelength
(center) [µm] 		Width
[µm] 		Resolution
(IGFOV) [km] 		Band name / usage
1 0.47 0.04 1 blue
2 0.64 0.1 0.5 red
3 0.865 0.039 1 vegetation
4th 1.378 0.015 2 Daylight cirrus clouds
5 1.61 0.06 1 Snow / ice
6th 2.25 0.05 2 Size of cloud particles
7th 3.9 0.2 2 Infrared window
8th 6.19 0.83 2 Tropospheric water vapor
9 6.95 0.4 2 Tropospheric water vapor
10 7.34 0.2 2 Water vapor, SO 2
11 8.5 0.4 2 "Cloud phase"
12 9.61 0.38 2 ozone
13 10.35 0.5 2 IR: surface and clouds
14th 11.2 0.8 2 IR: SST , clouds, rain
15th 12.3 1 2 IR: all water, ash, SST
16 13.3 0.6 2 CO 2

GLM is a lightning sensor in the NIR band. It is the first to enter geostationary orbit.

EXIS measures solar radiation in the upper atmosphere, especially solar flares . SUVI records solar activity .

SEISS measures electron, proton and heavy ion flows.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ NOAA: GOES-R has become GOES-16
  2. ↑ heise online: NASA satellite GOES-16: First impressive photos of the earth. Retrieved January 26, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Stephen Clark: NOAA's GOES-16 weather satellite declared operational. Spaceflight Now, December 20, 2017, accessed December 21, 2017 .
  4. ↑ GOES-R ABI Bands Quick Info Guides
  5. ↑ Timothy J. Schmit, Mathew M. Gunshor, W. Paul Menzel, James J. Gurka, Jun Li: Introducing the next-generation advanced baseline imager on GOES-R . In: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society . tape 86 , no. 8 , 2005, p. 1079-1096 , doi : 10.1175 / BAMS-86-8-1079 .
  6. ↑ Factsheet GLM
  7. ^ NOAA: GOES-16 Spacecraft and Instruments