Photos: Atlas V Leaps Off From Florida with GOES-S
A United Launch Alliance thundered off from Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 41 at 22:02 UTC on March 1st, 2018 with the GOES-S weather satellite.
Read moreA United Launch Alliance thundered off from Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 41 at 22:02 UTC on March 1st, 2018 with the GOES-S weather satellite.
Read moreA United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket pierced into the afternoon clouds over Florida’s Cape Canaveral on Thursday, carrying into orbit a critical U.S. weather satellite set to join a sister spacecraft launched one and a half years ago to complete NOAA’s high-orbiting constellation of next-generation weather sentinels.
Read moreA United Launch Alliance thundered off from Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 41 at 22:02 UTC on March 1st, 2018 with the GOES-S weather satellite.
Read moreA United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket rolled to its Cape Canaveral launch pad on Wednesday in preparation for liftoff Thursday afternoon with the second in the next-generation of U.S. Geostationary Weather Satellites to complete the operational constellation with two sharply-eyed weather assets watching over the Western Hemisphere from their high-altitude perch.
Read moreNOAA’s recently-launched GOES-16 weather satellite sent back its first images of Earth, providing a taste of what’s to come once the state-of-the-art satellite enters service later this year to deliver data at unprecedented resolution and revisit time to scientists, meteorologists and weather enthusiasts.
Read moreA planned twilight liftoff of ULA’s Atlas V carrying the GOES-R weather satellite turned into a night launch on Saturday when the rocket was forced to stay on the ground until the very last second of the day’s launch window.
Read moreRiding on pillars of smoke and flames, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket blasts off from Cape Canaveral to lift into orbit the GOES-R next-generation weather satellite that will revolutionize the collection of meteorological data over the Western hemisphere.
Read moreRiding on pillars of smoke and flames, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket blasts off from Cape Canaveral to lift into orbit the GOES-R next-generation weather satellite that will revolutionize the collection of meteorological data over the Western hemisphere.
Read moreA United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket stands ready atop its Cape Canaveral launch pad for liftoff with the GOES-R meteorological satellite to ring in a new era in weather forecasting.
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