| GOES-19 | |
| Names List: | Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-U |
| Mission Type: | Earth weather forecasting |
| Operator: | NOAA / NASA |
| Mission Duration: | 15 years (planned) (in progress) |
| Spacecraft Bus: | A2100 |
| Manufacturer: | Lockheed Martin |
| Launch Date: | UTC[1] (5:26pmEDT) |
| Launch Rocket: | Falcon Heavy |
| Launch Site: | Kennedy Space Center, LC-39A |
| Launch Contractor: | SpaceX |
| Entered Service: | 7 April 2025[2] |
| Orbit Reference: | Geocentric orbit |
| Orbit Regime: | Geostationary orbit |
| Orbit Longitude: | 75.2° west (planned)[3] |
| Orbit Eccentricity: | 0.0045031[4] |
| Orbit Inclination: | 0.1204° |
| Orbit Period: | 24 hours |
| Apsis: | gee |
| Orbit Epoch: | July 12, 2024 |
| Insignia: | GOES-U logo.png |
| Insignia Caption: | GOES-U mission insignia |
| Insignia Size: | 200px |
| Programme: | GOES Series |
| Previous Mission: | GOES-18 |
GOES-19 (designated GOES-U prior to reaching geostationary orbit) is a weather satellite, the fourth and last of the GOES-R series of satellites operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The GOES-R series will extend the availability of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) system until 2036. The satellite is built by Lockheed Martin, based on the A2100 platform.[5] [6] The satellite was placed into service as the GOES-East position and GOES-16 was stored as backup on April 7, 2025.[7]
The satellite was successfully launched into space atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on 25 June 2024 at 21:26UTC (5:26pmEDT local time at the launch site),[1] from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States. The redesign of the loop heat pipe to prevent an anomaly, as seen in GOES-17, was not expected to delay the launch as with GOES-T.[8] GOES-19 has a dry mass of and a fueled mass of .[9]
GOES-19 also carries a copy of the Naval Research Laboratory's Compact CORonagraph (CCOR) instrument designated as CCOR-1 which, along with the CCOR carried onboard Space weather Observations at L1 to Advance Readiness - 1 (SOLAR-1), will allow continued monitoring of solar wind after the retirement of the NASA-ESA SOHO satellite in 2025.[10] [11] CCOR-1 on GOES-19 provides a field of view of 3.7 to 18.7 solar radii, partially comparable to LASCO C3's field of view onboard SOHO, with a 33 arcsecond spatial resolution.[12]
See also: List of Kreutz sungrazers. The CCOR instrument carried aboard GOES-19 has allowed for the discovery of several sungrazer comets by researchers analyzing CCOR imagery. As of 28 May 2025, GOES-19's CCOR-1 has found 47 comets.[13]
The faint comet 3I/ATLAS was observable from 18–24 October 2025 with GOES-19 as the satellite can see objects down to magnitude 12.[14]
