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Photos: Atlas 5 rocket and GOES-S weather satellite assembled for launch
Technicians around Cape Canaveral spent the last four weeks assembling a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket and preparing a Lockheed Martin-built NOAA weather satellite for liftoff March 1.
GOES-S weather observatory hoisted atop Atlas 5 rocket
NOAA’s next geostationary weather satellite, GOES-S, was raised on top of an Atlas 5 launcher Friday at Cape Canaveral in preparation for liftoff March 1 to keep watch over the Pacific Ocean and the Western United States.
NASA gears up for brisk launch pace, starting with weather satellite
Engineers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center tasked with overseeing launches of scientific satellites and interplanetary probes will be responsible later this year for ensuring six major missions safely get into space over a span of a little more than six months, beginning with the launch of NOAA's new GOES-S weather observatory on an Atlas 5 rocket March 1.
GOES-S weather satellite arrives in Florida for launch preparations
NOAA's latest weather satellite, a new-generation geostationary observatory named GOES-S, landed at the Kennedy Space Center's former space shuttle runway Monday aboard a U.S. Air Force transport jet, ready to begin final preparations for launch March 1 on top of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket.
Photos: Delta 2 climbs into the night from Vandenberg Air Force Base
Launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base on California's Central Coast on its third try, United Launch Alliance's Delta 2 rocket lifted off Saturday with NOAA's JPSS 1 polar-orbiting weather satellite.
Penultimate Delta 2 rocket launch lofts advanced polar-orbiting weather satellite
A United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket climbed into space Saturday from California with a $1.6 billion polar-orbiting weather satellite for NOAA, the first of four upgraded observatories designed to keep vital meteorological data flowing to forecasters for the next two decades.
Video: JPSS 1 weather satellite deploys from Delta 2 rocket
NOAA's new JPSS 1 weather satellite deployed from its Delta 2 launcher in an orbit more than 500 miles above Earth nearly one hour after blasting off from California.
Video: Delta 2 rocket lifts off from California
A United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket lifted off Saturday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with the JPSS 1 weather satellite, the first in a new line of polar-orbiting observatories for NOAA.
Delta 2 launch from California halted for second day in a row
Brisk upper level winds blowing from the west thwarted a second try to launch a new NOAA weather satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket Wednesday, likely postponing the liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California until at least Saturday.
Boats in safety zone, technical problem combine to scrub Delta 2 launch
United Launch Alliance called off the launch of a Delta 2 rocket from California's Central Coast early Tuesday after boats ventured into a restricted safety exclusion zone and engineers ran out of time to resolve a technical problem on the launcher.