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: 2026-09-15T21:48:33.351840Z
- Period
- 1,436.10 min
- Inclination
- 0.5597°
- Eccentricity
- 0.0001593
- Mean motion
- 1.00271757 rev/d
- Perigee alt
- 35,779.9 km
- Apogee alt
- 35,793.3 km
- Semi-major
- 42,164.7 km
- B*
- 0.0000e+0
- RAAN
- 84.5100°
- Arg perigee
- 126.8598°
- Mean anomaly
- 5.9644°
- Rev number
- 3,601
§ Raw data
GOES 161 41866U 16071A 26258.90871935 -.00000097 00000+0 00000+0 0 99902 41866 0.5597 84.5100 0001593 126.8598 5.9644 1.00271757 36016
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