GOES 11

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GOES-11
GOES-L before launch
Mission typeWeather satellite
OperatorNOAA / NASA
COSPAR ID2000-022A Edit this at Wikidata
SATCAT no.26352
Mission duration5 years (planned)
10+ years (achieved)
Spacecraft properties
Space Systems/Loral
Launch mass2,217 kilograms (4,888 lb)
Start of mission
Launch date3 May 2000, 07:07 (2000-05-03UTC07:07Z) UTC
Rocket
SLC-36A
ContractorILS
End of mission
DisposalDecommissioned
Deactivated6 December 2011 (2011-12-07)
Orbital parameters
Reference system
Semi-major axis
42,512 kilometres (26,416 mi)
Perigee altitude36,127.7 kilometres (22,448.7 mi)
Apogee altitude36,155.9 kilometres (22,466.2 mi)
Inclination4.2°
Period1,453.9 minutes
 

GOES-11, known as GOES-L before becoming operational, is an American weather satellite, which is part of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite system. It was launched in 2000, and operated at the GOES-WEST position, providing coverage of the west coast of the United States, until December 6, 2011.[1][2]

Launch

Launch of GOES-11

GOES-L was launched aboard an

Orion 3. The failure occurred during the second stage restart, and as the Delta III and Atlas II both used RL10 engines on their second stages, this resulted in a further delay.[5]

When the Centaur was cleared for flight in August 1999, GOES-L was rescheduled to launch in November. This then slipped to December in order to allow a

LS-1300
satellite bus, and was the fourth of five GOES-I series satellites to be launched.

Operations

Following launch, GOES-11 was positioned in geostationary orbit at a longitude of 104° West for testing and on-orbit storage. In 2006, it was moved to 135° West[7] to replace the GOES-10 satellite, which was about to run out of fuel.[1] By the time it entered service, it had already been in orbit for a year past the end of its design life. Its late entry into service was partly because GOES-10 exceeded its design life by over six years, and partly because GOES-12 was brought into service ahead of GOES-11 in order to allow use of a new instrument that it carried.[8]

On December 6, 2011, GOES-11 was decommissioned and replaced by GOES-15. On December 15, 2011, the booster was fired to move the satellite 185 miles (298 km) above its previous orbit, and it was officially decommissioned.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "GOES-NEWS". NASA. 2009-05-09. Archived from the original on 2004-06-05. Retrieved 2009-07-09.
  2. ^ a b "NOAA activates GOES-15 satellite; deactivates GOES-11 after nearly 12 years in orbit". NOAA. Archived from the original on 2011-12-08. Retrieved December 7, 2011.
  3. ^ Wade, Mark. "FS 1300". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Archived from the original on 2009-07-05. Retrieved 2009-07-09.
  4. ^ a b McDowell, Jonathan. "Launch Log". Jonathan's Space Page. Retrieved 2009-07-09.
  5. ^ a b c "GOES-11 Status". NOAA. Archived from the original on 2004-10-30. Retrieved 2009-07-09.
  6. ^ Krebs, Gunter. "GOES 8, 9, 10, 11, 12". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 2009-07-09.
  7. ^ "GOES-11 Spacecraft Status Summary". NOAA. Archived from the original on 2006-09-29. Retrieved 2009-07-09.
  8. ^ "GOES-M Status". NOAA. Archived from the original on 2004-10-30. Retrieved 2009-07-09.
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