GOESN Evan Briggs Earth Remote Sensing

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GOES-NEvan BriggsEarth Remote Sensing
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Overview

• History
• Mission
• Onboard Equipment
• Improvements
• Conclusion

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History

• In 1998, NOAA and NASA award contract to Boeing
  to build up to four Geostationary Operational
  Environmental Satellites (GOES)
• GOES-N designed as extension of the program to
  provide continuous monitoring of Earths weather
• GOES-N launched into geosynchronous orbit May
  24th 2006 from Cape Canaveral, FL
• Launch vehicle consisted of Delta IV

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History Continued

• GOES system currently consists of GOES-12
  (GOES-East), GOES-10 (GOES-West), and GOES-11
  which is in on-orbit storage
• GOES-11 will replace GOES-10
• GOES-N will be renamed GOES-13 upon arrival in
  final orbit
• Will be stored until needed

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Mission

• Primary mission is to provide meteorologist with
  information vital to predicting local weather
  events
• GOES-N will also provide ability to monitor dust
  storms, volcanic activity, and forest fires
• Will support the search and rescue satellite
  aided system (SARSAT)

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Onboard Equipment

• GOES-N carries two primary instruments as well as
  collection of various other sensors
• Imager Imaging radiometer used to produce images
  of Earths surface and temperature
• Sounder Gathers atmospheric data allowing
  meteorologist to examine atmospheric temperature
  and moisture profiles by mathematical analysis
  and data from the imager

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Improvements

• Design lifetime increased from 7 to 10 years
• Command data rate increased by 1750 bps over
  previous GOES version
• Subsystem has been upgraded to sustain operation
  during eclipse
• Image navigation and registration improved
  providing more accurate weather information

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Conclusion

• Overview
• History
• Onboard Equipment
• Improvements

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Questions?
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References

• NOAA SARSAT, www.sarsat.noaa.gov
• Spaceflight Now, GOES-N, www.spaceflightnow.com/de
  la/d315/060521goesn.html
• GOES-N, www.osd.noaa.gov/GOES/GOES-n_Fact_Sheet_20
  06.pdf
• NASA - GOES-N, www.nasa.gov/mission_page/goes-n/ma
  in/index.html