GOES-S - Atlas V 541 (AV-079) - Canaveral SLC-41 - 02.03.2018

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Отделение КА

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NASA_LSP‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA_LSP 5 мин.5 минут назад

We have separation of the @NOAASatellites #GOESS from the #AtlasV Centaur. #GOESS is flying on its own for the first time! #ItIsRocketScience

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 6 мин. назад

S/C Sep for GOES-S! Atlas V successful launch.

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https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/03/ula-atlas-goes-s-launch/ ...

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NASA_LSP‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA_LSP 1 мин. назад

After separation, the Centaur performed a Collision Avoidance Maneuver, then will blow down its fuel & oxidizer to go into disposal orbit. #AtlasV #GOESS

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Отделение КА (борт-камера)

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В ожидании развёртывания СБ

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Дождались. Есть подтверждение развёртывания СБ первого этапа

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NASA_LSP‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA_LSP 1 час назад

The spacecraft team has confirmed successful solar array deployment! @NOAASatellites #GOESS is power positive and looking great. Pam Sullivan thanked @NASA_LSP and @ulalaunch for a great ride on #AtlasV

NOAA Satellites‏Подлинная учетная запись @NOAASatellites 1 час назад

Success!!! The #GOESS solar array has deployed! Thanks for letting us know, SMD!

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NASA‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA 17 мин. назад

#GOESS is flying on its own with solar arrays powered. It is ready to be checked out before starting to gather faster, more accurate data that will track storm systems, lightning, wildfires, dense fog and other hazards for @NOAA's @NWS & more.

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03/02/2018 05:54 Stephen Clark

Officials confirmed the GOES-S satellite has completed a partial extension of its solar arrays, as planned, shortly after deployment from the Atlas 5 rocket in an on-target orbit.

The power-generating panel will be fully extended around 12 days after launch, once GOES-S reaches its planned circular orbit nearly 22,300 miles (35,800 kilometers) over the equator.

GOES-S's on-board engine, built by the Japanese company IHI, will fire six times over the next 10 days, beginning Saturday, to nudge the satellite toward its geostationary orbit destination. A final maneuver 14 days after launch will stop the satellite's orbital drift over the Americas, setting up for a series of tests at a position at 90 degrees west longitude.

The satellite's X-band antenna will be deployed 18 days after launch, and an auxiliary S-band and L-band antenna wing will be extended 19 days after liftoff.

The boom holding GOES-S's magnetometer instrument will be deployed 20 days after launch, and then controllers will begin configuring the satellite's weather instruments for observations, including a month of outgassing to ensure the sensors are free of contaminants that might have been carried from Earth.

Tim Walsh, acting director of the GOES-R program at NOAA, said the new weather satellite will be ready to move to its final operating post at 137 degrees west longitude around six months after launch to begin tracking storms over the western United States and the Pacific Ocean, including Alaska and Hawaii.

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Spaceflight Now‏ @SpaceflightNow 21 мин. назад

The GOES-S weather satellite has partially extended its solar array, as planned, after an on-target launch on an Atlas 5 rocket. Here's an on-board camera view of spacecraft separation. https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/02/28/av-077-mission-status-center/ ...
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https://www.ulalaunch.com/missions/missions-details/2018/03/02/united-launch-alliance-successfully-launches-goes-s-weather-satellite-for-nasa-and-noaa

United Launch Alliance Successfully Launches GOES-S
 Weather Satellite for NASA and NOAA

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., (March 1, 2018 ) – A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the GOES-S mission for NASA and NOAA lifted off from Space Launch Complex-41 on March 1 at 5:02 p.m. EST. GOES-S is the second satellite in the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-R series of satellites, which have played a vital role in weather forecasting, storm tracking and meteorological research. ULA's current and heritage Atlas and Delta rockets have launched every GOES satellite, first launching in 1975.

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"Thank you to our partners at NASA and NOAA for the outstanding teamwork, as we delivered this next-generation satellite to orbit," said Gary Wentz, ULA vice president of Government and Commercial Programs. "We are proud to serve as the ultimate launch provider, continuing our dedication to 100 percent mission success."

GOES-S will be operated from a vantage point 22,300 miles above Earth to cover the western United States, Alaska and Hawaii, providing unprecedented advancements in the clarity and timeliness of observations over the region. It will work in tandem with the GOES-R satellite that was successfully launched by an Atlas V rocket on Nov. 19, 2016. The next-generation GOES-R series scans the Earth five times faster at four times the image resolution, with triple the number of data channels than previous GOES satellites for more reliable forecasts.

This mission was launched aboard an Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) 541 configuration, which includes a 5-meter payload fairing. The Atlas booster for this mission was powered by the RD AMROSS RD-180 engine. Aerojet Rocketdyne provided the four AJ-60A solid rocket boosters and the RL10C-1 engine for the Centaur upper stage.

This is the 76th launch of the Atlas V rocket, ULA's 3rd launch in 2018 and the 126th successful launch since the company was formed in December 2006.

ULA's next launch is the AFSPC-11 mission for the U.S. Air Force on an Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

With more than a century of combined heritage, United Launch Alliance is the nation's most experienced and reliable launch service provider. ULA has successfully delivered more than 125 satellites to orbit that aid meteorologists in tracking severe weather, unlock the mysteries of our solar system, provide critical capabilities for troops in the field and enable personal device-based GPS navigation.

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https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-ula-launch-advanced-noaa-weather-satellite

March 2, 2018
RELEASE 18-012

NASA, ULA Launch Advanced NOAA Weather Satellite


A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying the NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES-S. Liftoff was at 5:02 p.m. EST. GOES-S is the second satellite in a series of next-generation weather satellites.
Credits: NASA/Kim Shiflett

NASA successfully launched the second in a series of next-generation weather satellites for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) at 5:02 p.m. EST Thursday.

NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S) lifted off on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

GOES-S mission managers confirmed at 8:58 p.m. the spacecraft's solar arrays successfully deployed and the spacecraft was operating on its own power.

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The satellite will provide faster, more accurate and more detailed data, in near real-time, to track storm systems, lightning, wildfires, coastal fog and other hazards that affect the western United States.

"We at NASA Science are proud to support our joint agency partner NOAA on today's launch of GOES-S, a national asset that will impact lives across the Western Hemisphere each and every day," said Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA associate administrator for science, who attended today's launch.

Once GOES-S is positioned in a geostationary orbit 22,300 miles above Earth, in approximately two weeks, it will be renamed GOES-17. Later this year, after undergoing a full checkout and validation of its six high-tech instruments, the new satellite will move to the GOES-West position and become operational. From there, it constantly will provide advanced imagery and atmospheric measurements, real-time mapping of lightning activity, and improved monitoring of solar activity and space weather.

In addition to improving weather forecasts, GOES-17 will help forecasters locate and track wildfires – invaluable information that emergency response teams need to fight fires and evacuate people out of harm's way. GOES-17 also will be an important tool for forecasters to track and predict the formation and dissipation of fog, which can disrupt airport operations.

GOES-17 will work in tandem with GOES-16, the first satellite in NOAA's new geostationary series, now at the GOES-East position. GOES-17 will extend observational high-resolution satellite coverage of the revolutionary new technology aboard GOES-16 to most of the Western Hemisphere, from the west coast of Africa to New Zealand, and from near the Arctic Circle to near the Antarctic Circle. The satellite will provide more and better data than is currently available over the northeastern Pacific Ocean, the birthplace of many weather systems that affect the continental U.S.

NOAA manages the GOES-R Series program through an integrated NOAA/NASA office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. NASA also oversees the acquisition of the spacecraft, instruments and launch vehicles. Lockheed Martin Space of Littleton, Colorado, built the spacecraft and is responsible for spacecraft development, integration and testing.

Mission operations will be performed by NOAA at the NOAA Satellite Operations Facility in Suitland, Maryland. Harris Corp. of Melbourne, Florida, provided the main instrument payload, the Advanced Baseline Imager, and the ground system, which includes the antenna system for data receipt. NASA's Launch Services Program, based at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is responsible for launch management. ULA of Centennial, Colorado, is the provider of the Atlas V launch service.

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Steve Cole
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-0918
stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov

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Last Updated: March 2, 2018
Editor: Karen Northon

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Interview with NASA Launch Director

 NASAKennedy

Опубликовано: 1 мар. 2018 г.

Following the successful liftoff of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES-S, NASA Launch Director Tim Dunn speaks with Mike Curie of NASA Communications.

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http://spaceflight101.com/goes-r/atlas-v-launches-goes-s-weather-satellite/

Next-Generation Weather Sentinel Rides to Orbit atop Atlas V Powerhouse
March 2, 2018

Photo: Erik Kuna, erikkuna.com

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket pierced into the afternoon clouds over Florida's Cape Canaveral on Thursday, carrying into orbit a critical U.S. weather satellite set to join a sister spacecraft launched one and a half years ago to complete NOAA's high-orbiting constellation of next-generation weather sentinels.

Likened to upgrading fr om grainy black-and-white TV to high-definition vision, the introduction of the fourth-generation of America's high-altitude GOES satellites marks a major leap in forecasting adverse weather, detecting wildfires, and warning of space weather events to ultimately save lives on Earth.

Atlas V jumped off its Atlantic-side launch pad at 22:02 UTC, 5:02 p.m. local time, enlisting the help of four Aerojet Rocketdyne Solid Rocket Boosters to catapult it skyward and send the 5,200-Kilogram GOES-S satellite on its way. The boosters dropped away less than two minutes into the rocket's climb and Atlas V relied on its Russian-built RD-180 main engine until four and a half minutes after launch when the trusted Centaur stage took over, conducting its 247th mission.

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Photo: Erik Kuna, erikkuna.com

Centaur and its hydrogen-fueled RL-10C engine were tasked with three firings on Thursday, taking GOES-S halfway around the world over the course of the methodical orbit-raising operation in a bid to drop the satellite off closer to its operational orbit and so provide it with an additional four years of propellant margin. The final injection burn over the Java Sea was declared a success and loaded springs pushed the satellite on its way three hours and 32 minutes after launch, some 33,000 Kilometers above the planet – putting the checkmark behind Atlas V's 76th mission.

Separating fr om its booster after a smooth climb, GOES-S headed off on two weeks of orbit-raising burns to reach its desired high-altitude perch 36,000 Kilometers above the equator where its speed is interlocked with Earth's rotation to enable the craft to remain in the same position relative to the ground. Half a year of checkouts are on tap before GOES-S will assume active duties as GOES-17 in the GOES-West position, watching over typhoons in the Pacific Ocean and weather events across the continental United States.

Photo: Lockheed Martin

The arrival of GOES-S is eagerly awaited by meteorologists and climate scientists alike after its sister satellite, GOES-R, already proved its worth even before entering operational service in December.

Launched in November 2016 as the first in the new generation of spacecraft, GOES-R delivered life-saving data during the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season – providing accurate wind and rain forecasts for Hurricane Harvey that caused major flooding in Texas in August and September and the satellite was also on the case when predicting wh ere destructive Hurricane Irma would cross over the Florida Keys with over 24 hours of lead time. Naturally, there is a great desire to fill the GOES-West location with an equivalent asset to obtain similar data for systems forming in the Pacific Ocean.

>> GOES-S Satellite Overview

GOES-R Captures Hurricanes Katia, Irma and José in September 2017 – Credit: NOAA/CIRA

The GOES-R class of satellites and their state-of-the-art ground system is an $11-billion undertaking and involves a total of four satellites to keep the GOES system in operation through 2036. Next in line are GOES-T and U, set for launch in 2020 and 2022 to become in-orbit spares before taking over active duty.

GOES – the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites – have been the backbone of U.S. weather forecasting for over four decades, finding their roots in 1974 as the high-altitude segment of the American weather fleet. As part of modern-day weather satellite systems, spacecraft in Geostationary Orbit are tasked with the collection of rapid-refresh data to follow cloud patterns, collect medium resolution atmospheric profiles and a number of auxiliary products while low-orbiting satellites at 800 Kilometers provide less frequent data but can collect detailed atmospheric profiles to feed into numerical forecast models.

Image: Lockheed Martin

The new GOES satellite generation represents a quantum leap over the first three generations of geostationary weather satellites, scanning the Earth five times faster, offering four times the resolution and improving spectral coverage by a factor of three while also inaugurating new instruments to reduce false tornado warnings and further capabilities in the emerging field of space weather forecasting that is gaining importance given the increasing reliance on satellites in our everyday lives.

Each fourth-generation GOES satellite hosts six state-of-the-art instruments – two pointed at Earth to collect imagery, atmospheric soundings and lightning data, two scanning the sun for UV and X-ray emissions and two taking measurements of near-Earth space to provide the first warning of incoming space weather events.

The core instrument of the satellites, the Advanced Baseline Imager, is responsible for 95% of the data coming from the spacecraft, doubling as an imaging and sounding instrument.

>> GOES-S Instrument Overviews

Photo: NASA Kennedy

Scanning the entire visible disk of Earth as frequently as every five minutes and delivering sub-frames of events of interest every thirty seconds, ABI creates the equivalent of 200 HD movies every day. Each scan collects data in sixteen spectral channels as opposed to five on the heritage system that could only take one full-disk image every 26 minutes.

The increase in spectral coverage and the high spatial resolution of up to 0.5 Kilometers allows ABI to obtain detailed pictures of cloud movement, watch over storms at unprecedented measurement cadence, and identify fires on the ground to aid fire detection and response. ABI's spectral coverage enables deeper insight into moisture levels, cloud type and height, fog and snow identification, as well as aerosol and ash cloud detection.

Because the Harris Corp. ABI combines the functions of two heritage instruments, GOES had an open instrument slot to fill, opting for the addition of the Geostationary Lightning Mapper. GLM employs a novel algorithm that collects and compares 500 frames per second to pin-point all types of lightning in day and night conditions. Real time insight into lightning can significantly enhance warning reliability and lead time for tornado outbreaks and other severe weather, cutting the number of false warnings in half.

Photo: Lockheed Martin

The two sun-watching instruments of the satellite are tasked with delivering full-disk images of the sun in six ultraviolet bands plus spectral data in the extreme-UV and X-ray range to characterize active regions for accurate assessments of coronal mass ejections and flares that can impact Earth's geomagnetic environment. Energetic particles and electromagnetic characteristics of near-Earth space are measured by a pair of in-situ instruments – providing the first measurement of incoming space weather and warning satellite operators of potentially harmful electrostatic discharge and radiation events.

GOES-R was declared operational on December 18th in the GOES-East slot at 75 degrees west longitude; GOES-S will be destined for the GOES-West position at 137°W wh ere it will become operational in around six months to deliver more accurate and timely forecasts for the West Coast, Alaska, Hawaii and Central America. The GOES-East position was given priority and received the first GOES-R-class satellite to watch over hurricanes, but, as recent events have shown, a similar capability at GOES-West will also save lives as West Coast states have been impacted by wildfires, dense fog and periodic rain causing deadly floods and mudslides.

Photo: NASA Kennedy

Sending GOES-S into orbit was up to the second-most-powerful version of ULA's Atlas V rocket, beefed up with four AJ60 Solid Rocket Boosters installed around the Common Core Booster first stage with Centaur fulfilling the role of upper stage and a five-meter payload fairing enshrouding the six-meter tall satellite.

>> Atlas V 541 Launch Vehicle Overview

The 62-meter Atlas V rocket, designated AV-077, formally entered countdown operations at 15:12 UTC on Thursday, gearing up for a two-hour launch window. Most of the early countdown operation was dedicated to a detailed checkout campaign on the rocket while teams put the finishing touches on ground systems at the SLC-41 launch complex.

Cryogenic propellant loading started when the countdown resumed from a planned pause at T-2 hours, initiating the process of loading the two-stage stack with supercold Liquid Oxygen and Liquid Hydrogen propellant plus Helium pressurization gas.

Filled with over 300 metric tons of liquid propellants plus some 165 tons of solid propellant packed into the four boosters, Atlas V entered the fast-paced events of its four-minute Automated Countdown Sequence after all support stations provided a unanimous GO for the rocket's afternoon liftoff. The 540-metric-ton vehicle came to life three seconds before launch when firing up its Kerosene-fueled RD-180 main engine, soaring to a launch thrust of 3,827 Kilonewtons.

Photo: Erik Kuna, erikkuna.com

Atlas V leapt off the ground at 22:02:00 UTC when its four boosters fired up to take the vehicle skyward with a total launch thrust of 1,080 metric-ton-force – exceeding the rocket's mass by a factor of two and making for a speedy climb-out from its Mobile Launch Platform.

Five seconds into the flight, Atlas V had cleared the lightning towers surrounding its launch pad and began its pitch and roll programs to attain a launch azimuth to the east-south-east, departing Florida on the standard route toward Geostationary Transfer Orbit. With the help of its boosters, Atlas V pushed through the sound barrier after just 36 seconds and the RD-180 throttled back briefly as the vehicle passed Maximum Dynamic Pressure at the 47-second mark into the mission.

Thrust on the four boosters tailed off at T+94 seconds after each burned 41 metric tons of propellant to deliver the initial kick needed by Atlas V to deliver its heavy load into an optimized Geostationary Transfer Orbit. The 17-meter long SRBs dropped away in pairs at T+1 minute and 50 seconds and Atlas V switched into Closed Loop Control a short time later after flying a pre-programmed attitude profile when ascending through the dense atmosphere.

Photo: Erik Kuna, erikkuna.com

The Swiss-made Payload Fairing split open and separated three minutes and 30 seconds into the flight followed moments later by the jettisoning of the Forward Load Reactor as Atlas V shed no-longer-needed weight on its climb into orbit. RD-180 entered its throttle segment a short time later, limiting acceleration toward the end of the first stage burn as the vehicle only weighed a tenth of what it did at liftoff by that point of the flight.

BECO – Booster Engine Cutoff was called out four minutes and 22 seconds into the flight after the RD-180 burned through 284 metric tons of Rocket Propellant 1 and Liquid Oxygen. The 32.5-meter long booster pulled away from the Centaur upper stage six seconds after cutoff using eight retrorockets and Centaur immediately headed into pre-start of the Aerojet Rocketdyne RL-10C engine.

Centaur soared to a thrust of 10,400-Kilogram-force at T+4 minutes and 38 seconds, beginning a planned seven-minute and 34-second burn tasked with injecting the stack into a preliminary Parking Orbit. The upper stage continued heading south east throughout its burn and switched communications to NASA's TDRSS system as it traveled across the Atlantic Ocean, achieving an orbit of 180 by 540 Kilometers, inclined 28.15 degrees.

Instead of a standard two-burn delivery into GTO, Thursday's mission employed a more complex three-burn mission intended to deliver GOES-S closer to its operational orbit. A standard GTO-injection would require the satellite to deliver a total change in velocity of around 1,800 meters per second to reach Geostationary Orbit whereas Thursday's mission was aiming for a GTO-1,140m/s orbit, cutting over 600m/s from the transfer which translates to more than four years of additional stationkeeping propellant reserves.

Image: United Launch Alliance

Centaur fired up its RL-10 engine again at T+22:38 on a burn of five minutes and 31 seconds while crossing the equator over the Gulf of Guinea to significantly boost the apogee of the orbit and position it close to the equator on the opposite side of Earth. The onboard navigation system showed Centaur reached an orbit of 204 x 32,780 Kilometers, 25.69° and the upper stage settled in for a passive flight phase of exactly three hours, crossing Sub-Saharan Africa, heading out over Madagascar and the Indian Ocean before starting the critical third burn while approaching the prospect apogee location of the finalized injection orbit.

RL-10C was re-started three hours and 28 minutes into the mission and fired for 94 seconds to significantly raise the orbit's perigee, top-up the apogee to match Geostationary altitude and conduct a major plane change to reduce the orbital inclination – aiming for an insertion orbit of 8,215 by 35,287 Kilometers at an inclination of 9.52 degrees.

GOES-S Separation – Photo: NASA TV

Launch Control called out a clean shutdown and Centaur's navigation platform showed an orbit of 8,201 by 35,290 Kilometers, 9.53° – marking another spot-on insertion for the workhorse and allowing GOES-S to operate one year longer than GOES-R through a further inclination reduction of one degree compared to the 2016 mission.

GOES-S was deployed at the three-hour and 32-minute mark into the mission and applause emerged at Launch Control after another flawless mission by the Atlas V. Drifting away from the Centaur upper stage, GOES-S made the first steps in a mission of at least 15 and up to 20 years. First stage deployment of the craft's solar array was planned 16 minutes after separation followed by initial acquisition of two-way telemetry and command links to enable Lockheed Martin teams to complete a cursory health inspection.

GOES-S is expected to make its way up into Geostationary Orbit over the next three weeks ahead of six months of in-depth checkouts and instrument characterization.

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https://ria.ru/space/20180302/1515584534.html

Ракета-носитель Atlas V стартовала во Флориде с метеорологическим спутником
ВАШИНГТОН, 2 мар – РИА Новости. Ракета-носитель Atlas V стартовала во Флориде с новым американским метеорологическим спутником GOES-S, NASA ведет трансляцию запуска.
Старт принадлежащей компании United Launch Alliance ракеты-носителя был дан с космодрома на мысе Канаверал в расчетные 01.02 мск в пятницу. Миссия осуществляется для Национального управления по проблемам океана и атмосферы США (NOAA) и NASA.
Первая ступень ракеты-носителя Atlas V оснащена российским ракетным двигателем РД-180, ее отделение произошло в штатном режиме через три минуты после старта ракеты.
Новейший спутник GOES-S, созданный компанией Lockheed Martin, войдет в созвездие спутников, предназначенных для слежения за атмосферными явлениями в Западном полушарии Земли. Как и его близнец, спутник GOES-R, запущенный в 2016 году, он должен значительно улучшить возможности по раннему обнаружению, прогнозированию и мониторингу погоды, повысить эффективность реагирования на стихийные бедствия.
Первый спутник серии GOES был запущен в 1975 году, и с тех пор они являются основным источником метеорологических наблюдений США.