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- GOES-12 (GOES-M) was launched July 23, 2001 from Cape Canaveral Air Station. On Tuesday April 1, 2003 at approximately 1815 UTC, GOES-12 replaced GOES-8 as the operational GOES East Satellite. The spacecraft will perform long term geostationary monitoring of U.S. weather. GOES 12's mission is the monitoring of hurricanes, severe thunderstorms, flash floods, and other severe weather as well as providing short-term weather forecasting or nowcasting. Combined with Doppler radar and automated surface weather stations, real-time GOES data greatly aids weather foecasters in providing better warnings of severe weather. NOAA's National Environmmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service will operate GOES. The instrument package includes a GOES I-M Imager and GOES I-M Sounder. For more information see http://www.oso.noaa.gov/goes/
Group: Platform_Details Entry_ID: GOES-12 Group: Platform_Identification Platform_Category: Earth Observation Satellites Platform_Series_or_Entity: GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) Short_Name: GOES-12 Long_Name: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 12 End_Group Group: Synonymous_Platform_Names Short_Name: GOES-12 Short_Name: 26871 End_Group Group: Platform_Associated_Instruments Short_Name: SXI Short_Name: GOES I-M SOUNDER Short_Name: GOES I-M IMAGER End_Group Group: Orbit Orbit_Type: GEO > GEOSYNCHRONOUS > GEOSTATIONARY End_Group Creation_Date: 2007-10-04 Online_Resource: http://www.oso.noaa.gov/goes/ Online_Resource: http://goes.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Online_Resource: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=2001-031A Group: Platform_Logistics Launch_Date: 2001-07-23 Launch_Site: CAPE CANAVERAL/KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, USA Primary_Sponsor: USA/NASA Primary_Sponsor: USA/NOAA End_Group End_Group
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