Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - 15

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
March, 2010 to January, 2017

For a number of years the designation GOES-Next (N) was used to identify the first of the satellites that would follow the GOES I-M series. It was also thought this GOES-N would be the start of a totally new generation satellite series. However, during the time frame of about 1992-95, NOAA and NASA have come to realize that a new generation satellite series would take at least a decade to define, develop, manufacture, and to launch. This new situation made both parties (NOAA, NASA) realize it would need a few more clones of the current GOES I-M series to maintain continuity of GOES service prior to the GOES Next being available.

directory.eoportal.org

http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Operations/GOES/index.html

Instrument	Datasets
ARGOS-4	0
Communications package on GOES	0
Imager	4
Low-Rate Information Transmission	0
Space Environment Monitor	0
Search and Rescue	0
Sounder	0
Solar X-ray Imager	0

Also known as :

• missionID 335 (ceos lexicon)
• Mission GOES-15 (ceos lexicon)
• resource GOES_15 (dbpedia lexicon)
• Platform GOES-15 (podaac lexicon)