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: 2026-09-27T07:37:08.945760Z
- Period
- 1,436.10 min
- Inclination
- 0.5858°
- Eccentricity
- 0.0002071
- Mean motion
- 1.00271422 rev/d
- Perigee alt
- 35,778.0 km
- Apogee alt
- 35,795.4 km
- Semi-major
- 42,164.8 km
- B*
- 0.0000e+0
- RAAN
- 84.1356°
- Arg perigee
- 139.9070°
- Mean anomaly
- 151.6894°
- Rev number
- 3,612
§ Raw data
GOES 161 41866U 16071A 26270.31746465 -.00000086 00000+0 00000+0 0 99962 41866 0.5858 84.1356 0002071 139.9070 151.6894 1.00271422 36124
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