Lockheed Martin

GOES 12

Atlas IIA

SUCCESS
Success

Monday, July 23, 2001 · 07:23 UTC

Mission

/01

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites were developed by NASA-Goddard and were transferred to the NOAA weather agency when operational. In addition to the usual weather imager/sounder, GOES-M carried a new solar soft X-ray imager.

Mission Type

Planetary Science

Orbit

Supersynchronous Transfer Orbit (Super-GTO)

Probability

N/A

Status

Launch Successful

Vehicle & Pad

/02

Rocket

Atlas IIA

Variant: IIA

Launch Pad

Launch Complex 36A

Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

28.471° N, 80.542° W

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