Payload Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite

invertible goes logo designed space systems/loral scott kim

in addition, goes satellites carry search , rescue repeater collects data emergency position-indicating radio beacons , emergency locator transmitter beacons, used during search-and-rescue operations u.s. air force rescue coordination center.

goes-r series

the proposed instrument package goes-r series included following:

advanced baseline imager (abi)
hyperspectral environmental suite (hes)
space environment in-situ suite (seiss), includes 2 magnetospheric particle sensors (mps-hi , mps-lo), energetic heavy ion sensor, , solar , galactic proton sensor
solar imaging suite, includes solar ultraviolet imager (suvi), solar x-ray sensor (xrs), , extreme ultraviolet sensor (euvs)
geostationary lightning mapper (glm)
magnetometer

in september 2006, hes canceled.