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Payload / Mission

GOES 12

Type
Planetary Science
Orbit
Supersynchronous Transfer Orbit (Super-GTO)

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.