Geostationary Satellites

Geostationary Satellites Overview

Geostationary Satellites

Geostationary satellites comprise the Nation's civil space resource for observing meteorological events in real time and providing continuous observations and communications services from space. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) provide a platform for earth environmental and solar observations, data collection and relay, search and rescue, low rate information transmission (LRIT), and other services. Responsibilities for providing acquisition and system integration oversight for the GOES spacecraft were performed by the former OSD Geostationary Program office up through 2010, when the last of the current generation of GOES spacecraft (GOES-P) was launched. The first of the next generation of geostationary satellites with greatly improved observing capabilities, the GOES-R series, is scheduled for launch in the latter half of this decade, and is being managed by the NESDIS GOES-R program office.

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