- Earth-watching satellite
- NORAD 24786
- 1997-019A
- Inclined geosynchronous
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Coral Sea
Orbit ends over the Coral Sea
In view from you
Nobody watches GOES 10 go over, but a receiver still asks whether it is above the horizon. Say where you are and this card answers.
Your position is rounded to about a kilometre and sent only to the Orbinauts API, to find the pass.
No brightness has been published for GOES 10, so it is not a naked-eye satellite and no city page carries pass times for it. Nothing here estimates one.
Seeing it
There is nothing to go outside for: it is too faint for the naked eye. What it is up there for reaches the ground as pictures and measurements, not as a light in the sky.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE
Where is GOES 10?
At 6:41:29 PM UTC GOES 10 was over the Pacific Ocean (13.3° N, 145.5° E), 36,225 km up, moving at 3.06 km/s and in sunlight.
What is GOES 10?
A satellite that watches the Earth in an inclined geosynchronous orbit, in space since Apr 25, 1997.
Can I see GOES 10?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for GOES 10, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.
General
- Operator
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- SS/Loral
- What it is
- Earth-watching satellite
- Launched
- Mass
- about 2.1 t
- Operating
- Orbit class
- Inclined geosynchronous
From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, what it is for, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 6:41 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:41 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 13.3° N, 145.5° E
- Altitude
- 36,225 km
- Speed
- 3.06 km/s (10,998 km/h)
- Course
- south-east
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 13.3°
- Orbital period
- 1,452.7 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 0.99
- This orbit
- 35,975 to 36,248 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,950 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 7, 2026, 1:18 PM, 1 day old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 1:18 PM, 1 day old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for GOES 10, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to GOES 10 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.
From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 8, 2026, 1:11 PM, 3 hours old. Only approaches serious enough to be reported publicly are listed: within three days and, for two bodies near the Earth, closer than a kilometre with a chance of a collision above 1 in 10,000, the level at which NASA moves the ISS.
Beside the others
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GOES 10 | 35,975 to 36,248 km | 1,453 minutes | about 2.1 t | 1997 |
| GOES-19 | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 5 t | 2024 |
| Meteosat-12 | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 3.8 t | 2022 |
| Meteosat-11 | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 2 t | 2015 |
| GOES-16 | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 5.2 t | 2016 |
| GOES-17 | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 5.2 t | 2018 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 7, 2026, 1:18 PM, 1 day old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "GOES 10",
"OBJECT_ID": "1997-019A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T13:18:50.807808",
"MEAN_MOTION": 0.99128127,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00320681,
"INCLINATION": 13.2953,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 20.0184,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 242.3624,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 134.6902,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 24786,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 10749,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.000003,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}