NOAA’s advanced GOES-R weather satellite launching this month

This month NOAA will be launching its most advanced weather satellite to date, the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R (GOES-R). The first of NOAA’s long-awaited, next generation weather satellites, the GOES-R will allow for significant improvements with tracking and forecasting the weather.

On November 19, 2016, at approximately 5:42pm EST, the GOES-R will be launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida onboard an Atlas V 541 rocket. The satellite will undergo a checkout and validation phase during its first year in orbit, and will then transition to operations immediately after.

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