EO·Atlas
GOES-18
GOES-18 (originally GOES-T) is a NOAA geostationary meteorological satellite, the third of the GOES-R Series, launched on 2022-03-01 and placed into geostationary orbit on 2022-03-14.[1][2] GOES-18 replaced GOES-17 as the operational GOES West satellite on 2023-01-04 and is stationed at 137.0 degrees West, providing continuous coverage of the western contiguous United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Mexico, Central America, and the Pacific Ocean to New Zealand.[3][1] The spacecraft carries six instruments: the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI), a 16-channel visible and infrared imager; the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) for optical lightning transient detection across the Americas; and solar and space-weather instruments including the Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI), Extreme Ultraviolet and X-ray Irradiance Sensors (EXIS), Space Environment In Situ Suite (SEISS), and a magnetometer (MAG).[4] GOES-18 data products include atmospheric motion vectors, sea surface temperature, fire and thermal anomaly detection for wildfire monitoring in the western United States, and lightning mapping.[5][3]
Supply chain position
- [1]GOES-R Series operations overviewagency doc2026-06-14
- [2]NASA GOES satellite network overviewagency doc2026-06-14
- [3]NOAA GOES-18 is now GOES Westagency doc2026-06-14
- [4]GOES-R Series instruments overviewagency doc2026-06-14
- [5]GOES-R Series data products overviewagency doc2026-06-14
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GOES-18. EO-Atlas, SpectraWorks B.V. https://eo-atlas.org/missions/goes-18 (CC BY 4.0)
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@misc{eoatlas:missions:goes-18,
title = {GOES-18},
author = {{EO-Atlas}},
publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
url = {https://eo-atlas.org/missions/goes-18}
}