NOAA GOES-U Weather Satellite Launch: SpaceX Falcon Heavy | NASA Kennedy
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carries NOAA's GOES-U Weather Satellite to geostationary orbit from NASA's Kennedy Space Center
Falcon Heavy’s two side boosters (B1072 and B1086) prepare to land at SpaceX’s Landing Zones 1 and 2 (LZ-1 and LZ-2) at Cape Canaveral
Falcon Heavy’s two side boosters (B1072 and B1086) prepare to land at SpaceX’s Landing Zones 1 and 2 (LZ-1 and LZ-2) at Cape Canaveral
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) GOES-U (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite U) lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, June 25, 2024. The GOES-U satellite is the final satellite in the GOES-R series. It serves a critical role in providing continuous coverage of the Western Hemisphere, including monitoring tropical systems in the eastern Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
On board GOES-U is a suite of seven instruments for collecting advanced imagery and atmospheric measurements, providing real-time mapping of lightning activity, and detecting approaching space weather hazards. Also onboard for the first time is the compact coronagraph that will observe the Sun’s outermost layer, called the corona, for large explosions of plasma that could produce geomagnetic solar storms.
Image Credit: SpaceX/NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC)
Image Date: June 25, 2024
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