GOES 16
NORAD 41866 · 2016-071A
PAYLOAD ACTIVE UNKNOWN
§ Identity
- Operator
- —
- Country
- US
- Launch date
- 2016-11-19
- Launch site
- AFETR
- Launch vehicle
- —
- Mass (kg)
- —
- RCS (m²)
- 13.16
Purposes: comms, earth_obs
External: N2YO · Heavens-Above · Gunter
§ Orbital elements
Epoch: 2026-05-25T04:34:01.670304Z
- Period
- 1,436.08 min
- Inclination
- 0.2842°
- Eccentricity
- 0.0000815
- Mean motion
- 1.00272749 rev/d
- Perigee alt
- 35,782.9 km
- Apogee alt
- 35,789.8 km
- Semi-major
- 42,164.5 km
- B*
- 0.0000e+0
- RAAN
- 85.6620°
- Arg perigee
- 274.4488°
- Mean anomaly
- 206.5096°
- Rev number
- 3,487
§ Raw data
GOES 161 41866U 16071A 26145.19029711 -.00000093 00000+0 00000+0 0 99992 41866 0.2842 85.6620 0000815 274.4488 206.5096 1.00272749 34873
JSON: /api/v1/satellites/41866 · /tle
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§ Radio — SatNOGS DB
| Mode | Description | Downlink | Uplink |
|---|---|---|---|
| BPSK | CDA (1693MHz) | 1.693 GHz | — |
| FM | GRB (1686.6MHz) | 1.687 GHz | — |
| FM | HRIT (1694.1MHz) | 1.694 GHz | — |
| FM | SARSAT - L-Band | 1.545 GHz | — |
4 transmitters · refreshed weekly from db.satnogs.org