- Earth-watching satellite
- EWS-G1 (GOES 13)
- NORAD 29155
- 2006-018A
- Medium Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Atlantic Ocean
Orbit ends over the Atlantic Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches GOES 13 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 13, 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 Atlantic Ocean LIVE
Where is GOES 13?
At 6:41:30 PM UTC GOES 13 was over the Atlantic Ocean (4.6° S, 4.6° W), 35,990 km up, moving at 3.08 km/s and in sunlight.
What is GOES 13?
A satellite that watches the Earth in medium Earth orbit, in space since May 24, 2006.
Can I see GOES 13?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for GOES 13, 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
- Boeing Satellite Development Center, El Segundo
- What it is
- Earth-watching satellite
- Launched
- Mass
- about 3.2 t
- Operating
- Orbit class
- Medium Earth orbit
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
- 4.6° S, 4.6° W
- Altitude
- 35,990 km
- Speed
- 3.08 km/s (11,070 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 4.9°
- Orbital period
- 1,457.6 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 0.99
- This orbit
- 35,953 to 36,464 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,950 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 4:06 AM, 14 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 4:06 AM, 14 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for GOES 13, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to GOES 13 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.
Launched with
GOES 13 shares its launch, 2006-018, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| DELTA 4 R/B | Rocket body |
Read from the international designators of the US catalogue: the year and the launch number every piece of one launch shares. A body that has come down is no longer listed.
Beside the others
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GOES 13 | 35,953 to 36,464 km | 1,458 minutes | about 3.2 t | 2006 |
| 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 8, 2026, 4:06 AM, 14 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "EWS-G1 (GOES 13)",
"OBJECT_ID": "2006-018A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T04:06:57.714048",
"MEAN_MOTION": 0.98789251,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00600242,
"INCLINATION": 4.9025,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 74.6107,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 280.5143,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 113.0337,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 29155,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 4467,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00000173,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}