Powerful GOES-U weather satellite launches to orbit atop SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket (video)

United States News News

Powerful GOES-U weather satellite launches to orbit atop SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket (video)
United States Latest News,United States Headlines
  • 📰 SPACEdotcom
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 63 sec. here
  • 3 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 29%
  • Publisher: 67%

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.

After concerns the weather would not cooperate, a perfect window of opportunity opened today for the launch of GOES-U, the fourth and final member of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's here on the Space Coast, rising off the pad today at 5:26 p.m. EDT . The assembled crowd erupted into thunderous applause as the brawny rocket roared into space on its 10th-ever liftoff."I could feel the adrenaline go through when it started launching.

The two side boosters of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket come down for a landing at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station shortly after launching the GOES-U weather satellite on June 25, 2024.Mission team members will put GOES-19 and its instruments through an extended series of checkouts, after which the satellite will take the place of GOES-16, which launched in November 2016 and currently occupies the GOES East position in the satellite network.

"This is a new product from an operational perspective," he added."We've had a coronagraph flying since the mid '90s on the ESA /NASA SOHO mission, which was a science mission, and it has done a fabulous job. But it is well beyond its years, and so to create a sustainable long-term operational capability, we are flying this compact

The two side boosters of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket come down for a landing at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station shortly after launching the GOES-U weather satellite on June 25, 2024."We've used it more, and in ways we necessarily weren't expecting when we first thought about what the GOES-R series might hold," Mike Brennan, director of NOAA's National Hurricane Center, told Space.com.

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

SPACEdotcom /  🏆 92. in US

United States Latest News, United States Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Powerful GOES-U weather satellite cleared for June 25 launch on SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocketPowerful GOES-U weather satellite cleared for June 25 launch on SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocketMeredith 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.
Read more »

Walking pets outside during the summer heatWalking pets outside during the summer heat13News meteorologist Matt Standridge goes over how this advanced temperature calculates way more than just heat.
Read more »

When will cooler air return to Indiana?When will cooler air return to Indiana?13News meteorologist Matt Standridge goes over how this advanced temperature calculates way more than just heat.
Read more »

Powerful new NOAA weather satellite set for June launch atop SpaceX Falcon HeavyPowerful new NOAA weather satellite set for June launch atop SpaceX Falcon HeavyMeredith 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.
Read more »

SpaceX soars through new milestones in test flight of the most powerful rocket ever builtSpaceX soars through new milestones in test flight of the most powerful rocket ever builtSpaceX’s Starship launched on its fourth uncrewed flight test Thursday from the company’s private Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas.
Read more »

The GOES-U satellite will catch a ride to space on SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocketThe GOES-U satellite will catch a ride to space on SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocketMeredith 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.
Read more »



Render Time: 2025-02-21 23:53:01