GOES 17
Operator: United States · Also known as: GOES-West
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About This Satellite
GOES-17, launched in March 2018, is NOAA's geostationary weather satellite for the Pacific region. It carries an Advanced Baseline Imager and a lightning mapper, though a cooling fault in its imager limited some infrared channels during parts of each year.
Source: Wikipedia — GOES-17 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
GOES 17 is a cataloged satellite tracked under NORAD ID 43226 with international designator 18022A. 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 35.797 km and a perigee near 35.791 km, with an inclination of 1.09° and a period of roughly 1436.1 minutes; at apogee its speed was about 3.07 km/s. It was launched on 2018-03-01. Alternative names include GOES-West. 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 17's apogee was 35.797 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.