GOES 18
Operator: United States · Also known as: GOES-T
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About This Satellite
GOES-18 launched in March 2022 to take over western-hemisphere weather duties for NOAA. Its instruments observe clouds, lightning, and solar activity from geostationary orbit, feeding forecasters imagery every ten minutes or faster.
Source: Wikipedia — GOES-18 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
GOES 18 is a cataloged satellite tracked under NORAD ID 51850 with international designator 22021A. According to the GCAT master catalog, it was built by LMCSS, on the A2100 platform, with a launch mass of about 5209 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 35.795 km and a perigee near 35.793 km, with an inclination of 0.00° and a period of roughly 1436.1 minutes; at apogee its speed was about 3.07 km/s. It was launched on 2022-03-01. Alternative names include GOES-T. 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 18's apogee was 35.795 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.