GOLD
NASA’s Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) is an active hosted-payload mission measuring densities and temperatures in Earth’s thermosphere and ionosphere to study the upper atmosphere.
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Identity
- Aliases
- Global-scale Observations of the Limb and DiskGOLD Mission
- Name
- GOLD
- Status
- active
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- Description
- NASA’s Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) is an active hosted-payload mission measuring densities and temperatures in Earth’s thermosphere and ionosphere to study the upper atmosphere.
- Destination
- Geostationary orbit at approximately 47.5°W longitude (about 35,800 km above the equator), hosted on SES-14
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- Start Date
- 2018-01-25
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Links
- Official Url
- https://science.nasa.gov/mission/gold/
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- Creation Time
- August 13, 2026 at 18:52:18 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 23, 2026 at 02:42:36 UTC
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