#goes17

[vidorbital]

Launch of GOES-17 aboard an Atlas V 541 from CCAFS SLC 41 on 2018/01/03.

[naturalscienceve]

Artists concept of the GOES-17 satellite in orbit. Credit Lockheed Martin 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. NOAA traditionally switches from a letter to a number designation for its weather satellites after they reach their operational geostationary orbit. Thi...

[rocketrundown]

An Atlas V carrying the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-S) lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral.

Image Credit: @NASA