NOAA GOES-T Satellite | United Launch Alliance

NOAA GOES-T Satellite | United Launch Alliance

This is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) GOES-T satellite, aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. It sits on the launchpad at Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States. GOES-T was rolled out to the launchpad from the ULA Vertical Integration Facility (VIF) on February. 28, 2022.

GOES-T is slated to launch on March 1, 2022 at 4:38 p.m. EST.

GOES-T is the third satellite in the GOES-R series that will continue to help meteorologists observe and predict local weather events that affect public safety. GOES-T will be renamed GOES-18 once it reaches geostationary orbit. GOES-18 will go into operational service as GOES West to provide critical data for the U.S. West Coast, Alaska, Hawaii, Mexico, Central America, and the Pacific Ocean. The launch is managed by NASA’s Launch Services Program based at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, America’s multi-user spaceport. 

Image Credit: United Launch Alliance/NASA/Ben Smegelsky

Image Date: February 28, 2021 

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