Editing Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (section)

==Payload==
The main mission of a GOES satellite is carried out by the primary payload instruments, which are the Imager and the Sounder. The Imager is a multichannel instrument that senses infrared [[radiant energy]] and visible [[albedo|reflected solar energy]] from the Earth's surface and atmosphere. The Sounder provides data for vertical atmospheric temperature and moisture profiles, surface and cloud top temperature, and [[ozone]] distribution.

GOES also offers the ''Data Collection System'', a ground-based meteorological platform [[satellite data collection]] and relay service.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.noaasis.noaa.gov/GOES/GOES_DCS/goes_dcs.html|title=GOES DCS|website=www.noaasis.noaa.gov}}</ref>
Other instruments on board the spacecraft are the SEM set, which consists of a [[magnetometer]], an [[X-ray]] sensor, a high energy [[proton]] and [[alpha particle]] detector, and an energetic particles sensor.

The GOES-N series (GOES-13 through GOES-15) spacecraft also have a sun-pointed extreme ultraviolet sensor.

[[Image:GOES logo - SSLoral.svg|thumb|200px|right|[[Ambigram|Invertible]] GOES logo designed for [[Space Systems/Loral]] by [[Scott Kim]]]]

In addition, the GOES satellites carry a search and rescue repeater that collects data from [[Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon]]s and Emergency Locator Transmitter beacons, which are used during search-and-rescue operations by the U.S. [[Air Force Rescue Coordination Center]].

===GOES-R Series===
The proposed instrument package for the GOES-R series initially included the following:<ref name="goes-r">{{cite web | url=http://www.goes-r.gov/spacesegment/spacecraft.html | title=GOES-R Spacecraft | work=Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite Program (GOES) | publisher=Goddard Space Flight Center | access-date=12 August 2011 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028071326/http://www.goes-r.gov/spacesegment/spacecraft.html | archive-date=28 October 2014 }}</ref><ref name="goes-r presentation">{{cite web | last=Hill | first=Steve | url=http://www.goes-r.gov/downloads/GOES%20Users%27%20Conference%20V/GUC%20V%20slides/231345%202008_AMS_HillGOESR_07.pdf | title=GOES-R Solar and Space Environment Data Products: Benefiting Users | work=Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite Program (GOES) | publisher=NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center | date=Jan 2008 | access-date=31 December 2008 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090226143343/http://www.goes-r.gov/downloads/GOES%20Users%27%20Conference%20V/GUC%20V%20slides/231345%202008_AMS_HillGOESR_07.pdf | archive-date=26 February 2009 }}</ref>

* Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI)
* Hyperspectral Environmental Suite (HES)
* Space Environment In-Situ Suite (SEISS), which includes two Magnetospheric Particle Sensors (MPS-HI and MPS-LO), an Energetic Heavy Ion Sensor, and a Solar and Galactic Proton Sensor
* Solar Imaging Suite, which includes the Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI), the Solar X-Ray Sensor (XRS), and the Extreme Ultraviolet Sensor (EUVS)
* [[Geostationary Lightning Mapper]] (GLM)
* Magnetometer

In September 2006, the HES was cancelled.