Weather · NORAD 41866

GOES-16

Name: GOES-16 — orbital elements
Creator: Ephem
License: https://ephem.pages.dev/terms

GOES-East. Provides the CONUS full-disk imagery used across NOAA and every US TV weather channel.

§1 Vitals

Operator	NOAA
Launched	2016-11-19
Approx. altitude	35,786 km
Inclination	0.0°
NORAD catalog id	41866

§2 Live orbital elements

The current two-line element set for this object is served from Ephem's cache at:

GET · https://ephem-api.YOUR-SUBDOMAIN.workers.dev/v1/objects/41866

curl -s https://ephem-api.YOUR-SUBDOMAIN.workers.dev/v1/objects/41866 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ek_live_..."

Cached 1 h. Backed by the CelesTrak active catalog, refreshed nightly.

§3 What Ephem does with this object

GOES-16 is included in the nightly SGP4 propagation that produces Ephem's debris density feed. Its sub-satellite point at any moment can be computed client-side from the TLE using standard SGP4 (the same code path the overhead map uses in your browser).

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