Trajectory & orbital insertion
Ascent path is a representation — true ascent telemetry isn’t public.
Provider
Lockheed Martin
Provider type
Commercial
Orbit
Super-GTO
Mission type
Planetary Science
Launch site
United States of America
Date
Mon, 23 Jul 2001 07:23:01 GMT
Orbital launch #
#4483 ever
Mission
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.