{"id":1047,"date":"2015-03-04T18:20:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T18:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wmo-sat.info\/satellite-user-readiness\/?p=1047"},"modified":"2019-06-05T16:21:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T16:21:21","slug":"goes-r-long-term-operations-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wmo-sat.info\/satellite-user-readiness\/goes-r-long-term-operations-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"GOES-R Series Long-Term Operations Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NOAA operates two primary geostationary satellites.\u00a0GOES East is located at 75.2\u00b0 W and provides most of the U.S. weather information. GOES West is located at 137.2\u00b0W over the Pacific Ocean. NOAA also maintains an on-orbit spare GOES satellite in the event of an anomaly or failure of GOES East or GOES West.\u00a0 The GOES-R series (GOES-R, S, T, and U) will extend the availability of the operational GOES satellite system through 2036.<\/p>\n<p>GOES-R (now GOES-16) launched in November 2016 and is operational as GOES East. GOES-S (now GOES-17) launched in March 2018 and is operational as GOES West.<\/p>\n<p>GOES-T is scheduled for launch in December 2021 and GOES-U is scheduled for launch in 2024.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nesdis.noaa.gov\/content\/our-satellites#flyout\">View the\u00a0latest GOES flyout chart\/launch schedule<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOAA operates two primary geostationary satellites.\u00a0GOES East is located at 75.2\u00b0 W and provides most of the U.S. weather information. GOES West is located at 137.2\u00b0W over the Pacific Ocean. NOAA also maintains an on-orbit spare GOES satellite in the event of an anomaly or failure of GOES East or GOES West.\u00a0 The GOES-R series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wmo-sat.info\/satellite-user-readiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wmo-sat.info\/satellite-user-readiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wmo-sat.info\/satellite-user-readiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmo-sat.info\/satellite-user-readiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmo-sat.info\/satellite-user-readiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmo-sat.info\/satellite-user-readiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1049,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmo-sat.info\/satellite-user-readiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions\/1049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wmo-sat.info\/satellite-user-readiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmo-sat.info\/satellite-user-readiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmo-sat.info\/satellite-user-readiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}