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TeachMeFinance.com - explain GOES GOES The term 'GOES' as it applies to the area of the weather can be defined as ' Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite- Satellites orbiting at 22,370 miles above the Equator with the same rotational velocity as the Earth; therefore, the satellite remains over the same location on the Earth 24 hours a day. Besides sending back satellite pictures to earth, it also relays the DCPs river and rainfall data back to the ground'.
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