2001 · Lockheed Martin
GOES 12
successAtlas IIA | GOES 12
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.
Overview
- Date / time
- July 23, 2001 at 07:23 AM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A
- Mission
- GOES 12
- Mission type
- Planetary Science
- Orbit achieved
- Supersynchronous Transfer Orbit