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NASA Completes Flight Readiness Review for GOES-U Mission – GOES Missions [1]

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Date: 2024-06-20  

NASA, NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), SpaceX, and GOES-U (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-U) mission managers met on June 20 to conduct a Flight Readiness Review at NASA’S Kennedy Space Center in Florida. During the review, teams provided an update on the mission status and certified the readiness to proceed with final launch preparation activities.

Teams will connect the weather satellite to a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket as one of the final preparations for launch. Once the satellite and rocket are fully integrated, SpaceX will roll the Falcon Heavy rocket carrying NOAA’s GOES-U satellite from the hangar to the launch pad.

NASA is targeting launch Tuesday, June 25, with the two-hour launch window opening at 5:16 p.m. EDT. The mission will lift off from Launch Complex 39A at the Florida spaceport. This will be the first GOES mission to launch on a Falcon Heavy, and the 10th Falcon Heavy mission for SpaceX.

On board GOES-U are seven instruments, including a new, operational Compact Coronagraph-1 instrument. As a part of NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On Program, the coronagraph will observe the Sun’s outermost layer, called the corona, for large explosions of plasma that could produce geomagnetic solar storms. These solar storms can impact satellites, crewed space missions, and Earth and space-based infrastructure.

The GOES-U satellite is the fourth and final in NOAA’s GOES-R series of advanced satellites that provide rapid, high-resolution imagery and atmospheric measurements of Earth’s Western Hemisphere, real-time mapping of lightning activity, and monitoring of solar activity and space weather.

To learn more about the GOES-U mission, visit:

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/goes/

Continue checking NASA’s GOES blog for additional mission updates, or join the conversation and get updates on social media by following these accounts:

X: @NASA, @NASA_LSP, @NASAKennedy, @NOAASatellites, @NASAGoddard

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[1] Url: https://blogs.nasa.gov/goes/2024/06/20/nasa-completes-flight-readiness-review-for-goes-u-mission/

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