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NOAA’s new GOES-17 weather satellite has degraded vision at night

May 23, 2018 Stephen Clark

Engineers are studying a malfunction with the main imaging instrument on NOAA’s GOES-17 weather satellite, launched March 1, that could limit the observatory’s ability to monitor storms, winds and other weather phenomena at night, officials said Wednesday.

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New NOAA weather satellite reaches geostationary orbit

March 12, 2018 Stephen Clark

Less than two weeks after its launch from Cape Canaveral, a new NOAA weather observatory has boosted itself into a circular orbit more than 22,000 miles over the equator, and officials have renamed it GOES-17 ahead of a test series before it enters service later this year.

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Photos: Atlas 5 blasts off with GOES-S weather satellite

March 6, 2018 Stephen Clark

NOAA’s newest weather satellite, heading for a perch with coverage over the western United States and the Pacific Ocean, launched March 1 from Cape Canaveral on top of an Atlas 5 rocket.

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Weather satellite for the West Coast launched from Cape Canaveral

March 2, 2018 Stephen Clark

A weather satellite set to bring new storm tracking capabilities to the western United States and the Pacific Ocean rode into space atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket Thursday.

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Video: Replay of Atlas 5’s launch with GOES-S weather satellite

March 1, 2018 Stephen Clark

NOAA’s GOES-S weather satellite, the latest in a series of meteorological observatories dating back to 1975, lifted off Thursday from Cape Canaveral aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket.

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Video: Atlas 5 launch with GOES-S viewed from KSC press site (members only)

March 1, 2018 Stephen Clark

Watch a replay of the Atlas 5 rocket launch with the GOES-S weather satellite from Cape Canaveral, as seen from the Kennedy Space Center press site around 4 miles from the launch pad.

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Watch a live view of the Atlas 5 launch pad with countdown audio (members only)

March 1, 2018 Stephen Clark

Spaceflight Now members can watch a live view of Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad as an Atlas 5 rocket counts down to liftoff at 5:02 p.m. EST (2202 GMT) Thursday with the GOES-S weather satellite.

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Photos: Atlas 5 treks from hangar to launch pad with GOES-S weather satellite

March 1, 2018 Stephen Clark

Rolling out on the eve of liftoff with the GOES-S weather satellite, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket journeyed 1,800 feet from its vertical assembly hangar to Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad Wednesday.

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Video: Time-lapse of Atlas 5’s rollout for launch of GOES-S (members only)

March 1, 2018 Stephen Clark

Watch a time-lapse video of the Atlas 5 rocket’s rollout at Cape Canaveral on Feb. 28, on the eve of liftoff with the GOES-S weather satellite.

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Atlas 5/GOES-S launch timeline

February 28, 2018 Stephen Clark

This is the launch timeline to be followed by the Atlas 5 rocket’s ascent into orbit from Cape Canaveral with the GOES-S weather satellite. Launch is scheduled for Thursday during a two-hour window opening at 5:02 p.m. EST (2202 GMT).

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