GOES 16
Operator: United States
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About This Satellite
GOES-16 is a geostationary weather satellite operated by NOAA and NASA. Launched in November 2016, it monitors the Americas with the Advanced Baseline Imager, delivering rapid full-disk imagery that dramatically improved storm tracking and severe-weather forecasting.
Source: Wikipedia — GOES-16 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
GOES 16 is a cataloged satellite tracked under NORAD ID 41866 with international designator 16071A. According to the GCAT master catalog, it was built by LMCSS, on the A2100 platform, with a launch mass of about 5192 kg, with a shape described as Box + panel + boom. It is associated with US. According to the TLE snapshot used when this page was generated (2026-08-18), its GEO orbit had an apogee of about 35.799 km and a perigee near 35.789 km, with an inclination of 0.49° and a period of roughly 1436.1 minutes; at apogee its speed was about 3.07 km/s. It was launched on 2016-11-19. 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 16's apogee was 35.799 km, where its speed was about 3.07 km/s, completing about 1.0 orbits of Earth per day. Track it live on the map above or in the JOT orbital map.