Weather
NORAD ID: 35491
Int'l Code: 2009-033A
Perigee: 35,779.6 km
Apogee: 35,807.8 km
Inclination: 0.2 °
Period: 1,436.1 minutes
Semi major axis: 42164 km
Launch date: June 27, 2009
Source: United States (US)
Comments: The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite system provides the hemispheric views familiar from television weathercasts. Observations of the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico and the East Coast are provided by the GOES-12 satellite--critical for hurricane tracking--with GOES-11 providing similar coverage of the the West Coast and the central Pacific Ocean past Hawaii. GOES-O will be known as GOES-14 once on station, joining the GOES-13 satellite, launched three years ago, as an orbital spare.
Two Line Element Set (TLE):
1 35491U 09033A 13141.32688564 -.00000083 00000-0 00000+0 0 9619
2 35491 000.1880 083.8256 0003343 103.4950 064.0318 01.00272097 14306
Source: AFSPC
NASA's NSSDC Master Catalog entry for GOES 14
