Geostationary
GOES 16
Geostationary Weather · NOAA / NASA
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The most advanced weather satellite ever operated by the United States, GOES-16 watches the Americas with a 16-band imager capturing full-disk images every 15 minutes and storm targets every 30 seconds. Its lightning mapper tracks every lightning strike across the Americas in near real-time. When you see a satellite image of an Atlantic hurricane on the news, it came from this spacecraft.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Geostationaryappears to hang motionless over one spot on the equator
- Altitude
- 22,237–22,247 mi (35,787–35,802 km)
- Inclination
- 0.6°
- One orbit
- 23.9 hoursabout one orbit a day
- NORAD ID
- 41866
- Int’l designator
- 2016-071A
- Launched
- 2016
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.