GOES 2
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GOES 2, launched in June 1977, was the second operational geostationary weather satellite. It continued full-disk Earth imaging and was later repurposed to relay communications in the Pacific.
Source: Wikipedia — GOES 2 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
GOES 2 is a cataloged satellite tracked under NORAD ID 10061 with international designator 77048A. According to the GCAT master catalog, it was built by FORDA, on the SMS platform, with a launch mass of about 294 kg, with a shape described as Cyl. According to the TLE snapshot used when this page was generated (2026-08-18), its Inclined GSO orbit had an apogee of about 36.088 km and a perigee near 35.992 km, with an inclination of 6.28° and a period of roughly 1448.7 minutes; at apogee its speed was about 3.06 km/s. Positions on this page are near-real-time SGP4 predictions propagated from the latest two-line element (TLE) data.
In the TLE snapshot used to generate this page, GOES 2's apogee was 36.088 km, where its speed was about 3.06 km/s, completing about 1.0 orbits of Earth per day. Track it live on the map above or in the JOT orbital map.