GOES 14

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GOES 14 is classified as:

NORAD ID: 35491

Int'l Code: 2009-033A

Perigee: 35,781.7 km

Apogee: 35,804.2 km

Inclination: 0.8 °

Period: 1,436.1 minutes

Semi major axis: 42163 km

RCS: 12.681 m² (large)

Launch date: June 27, 2009
Source: United States (US)
Launch site: AIR FORCE EASTERN TEST RANGE (AFETR)

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite system provides the hemispheric views familiar from television weathercasts. Observations of the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico and the East Coast are provided by the GOES-12 satellite--critical for hurricane tracking--with GOES-11 providing similar coverage of the the West Coast and the central Pacific Ocean past Hawaii. GOES-O will be known as GOES-14 once on station, joining the GOES-13 satellite, launched three years ago, as an orbital spare.

1 35491U 09033A   25186.54334478 -.00000053  00000-0  00000-0 0  9996
2 35491   0.7827  87.7671 0002668  64.5553 218.9090  1.00274526  3115

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC