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+  "date": "2024-06-26T18:54:36.000Z",
+  "title": "NOAA’s GOES-U Satellite Launches",
+  "canonicalUrl": "https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/noaas-goes-u-satellite-launches/",
+  "imageUrl": "https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/ksc-20240625-ph-spx01-0009orig.jpg",
+  "imageAlt": "Looking down a runway, we see clouds of vapor billowing outward as a rocket takes off. A black tower structure called the gantry is on the left of the rocket's flames, and further in the distance on the right is a white water tower.",
+  "author": "Monika Luabeya"
+}
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+A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s GOES-U (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) satellite lifts off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 25, 2024. GOES-U is the fourth and final satellite in the current series of advanced weather satellites; it will provide continuous coverage of weather and hazardous environmental conditions across much of the Western Hemisphere.
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+In addition to its critical role in predicting weather on Earth, the [GOES series of satellites](https://science.nasa.gov/mission/goes/) helps forecasters predict space weather near Earth that can interfere with satellite electronics, GPS, and radio communications. The GOES-U satellite has a new space weather instrument, the Compact Coronograph-1, which blocks the Sun’s bright light so scientists can observe the relatively fainter solar atmosphere.
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+GOES-U will take about two weeks to reach geostationary orbit. Once there, the satellite will be renamed GOES-19. [Follow GOES-U’s journey.](https://blogs.nasa.gov/goes/)
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+_Image Credit: SpaceX_