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Arianespace aims for busy second half of 2018

July 3, 2018 Stephen Clark

Europe’s first mission to Mercury, a quartet of Galileo navigation spacecraft, the world’s first global winds observatory, and a new European weather satellite have arrived at an equatorial launch base in French Guiana in preparation for launches in the coming months.

Chinese weather satellite successfully boosted into orbit

June 5, 2018 Stephen Clark

The last in an older generation of spin-stabilized Chinese weather satellites launched Tuesday toward a perch more than 22,000 miles over the equator, the start of a mission of at least four years monitoring tropical cyclones and other weather systems across Africa and Asia.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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