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NASA and SpaceX launch NOAA’s newest weather satellite – NASA

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NASA successfully launched the fourth and final satellite in a series of advanced weather satellites for NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) on Tuesday at 5:26 PM EDT. The GOES-U (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) will benefit the nation by providing continuous coverage of weather and hazardous environmental conditions across much of the Western Hemisphere. The … Read more

Watch SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket launch NOAA’s GOES-U satellite on June 25

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a triple-core rocket blasts off under a sunny, partly cloudy blue sky. smoke expands below next to an obscured launch tower, near a long white hanger with SPACEX written on the side. To the left, a bird flies away.

The final NOAA satellite in NOAA’s GOES-R series of weather satellites, GOES-U, is heading into space. The two-hour start window opens at 5:16 PM EDT (2116 GMT) on June 25 and the mission will aim for the stars on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A on NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Florida’s … Read more