Meredith is a regional Murrow award-winning Certified Broadcast Meteorologist and science/space correspondent. She most recently was a Freelance Meteorologist for NY 1 in New York City & the 19 First Alert Weather Team in Cleveland.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — The green lights continue to shine leading up to the launch of a powerful U.S. weather satellite. The two-hour launch window for GOES-U opens at 5:16 p.m. EDT on Tuesday. The spacecraft will catch a ride on a SpaceXhere on the Space Coast, weather permitting. This will be the Falcon Heavy's 10th launch overall, and the 65th orbital liftoff of 2024 for
"The GOES-U spacecraft is ready, the launch vehicle is ready, and we're looking forward to getting the spacecraft in orbit," Denton Gibson, senior mission manager in NASA's Launch Services Program, said during a press briefing on Monday. "The system has redundant parallel systems in it, and one of those legs was not operating," Julianna Schiman, the director for NASA science missions at SpaceX, said at Monday's briefing."We decided to keep the vehicle safe and make sure that that transport AC unit was fully functional. Now, that transport unit is fully functional and provides very cold air.
"We're going to go with a 70% probability of violation, or a 30% chance of 'go' for all the weather rules that we evaluate," Brian Cizek, launch weather officer with the, or criteria, that have to be met for the launch to go forward. In typical Florida fashion, there are concerns that afternoon thunderstorms could materialize, or clouds could build up that would lead to the Falcon Heavy creating its own lightning during the launch. That would be a dangerous condition.
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