Geostationary
GOES 17
Geostationary Weather · NOAA / NASA
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NOAA's GOES-West satellite covering the Pacific Ocean and western United States. GOES-17 watches California wildfires, Pacific typhoons, and Alaskan weather with the same advanced 16-band imager as GOES-16. Its lightning mapper tracks electrical storms crossing from the Pacific that become California's atmospheric rivers dumping feet of rain on the mountains.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Geostationaryappears to hang motionless over one spot on the equator
- Altitude
- 22,239–22,244 mi (35,791–35,798 km)
- Inclination
- 1.2°
- One orbit
- 23.9 hoursabout one orbit a day
- NORAD ID
- 43226
- Int’l designator
- 2018-022A
- Launched
- 2018
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.