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Three, two, one, and liftoff of the Atlas
V and NOAA’s GOES-S, a highly sophisticated,

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weather-watching eye-in-the-sky to join its
twin in providing better forecasts and saving

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lives.

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NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental
Satellite-S, or GOES-S, launched at 5:02 p.m.

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Eastern on March 1, 2018.

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It was delivered to orbit aboard a United
Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space

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Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force
Station in Florida.

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GOES-S was renamed GOES-17 after reaching
geostationary orbit 22,000 miles above the

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Earth.

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It is the second in the GOES-R Series of next-generation
weather satellites that began with GOES-R,

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now renamed GOES-16, and includes GOES-S,
GOES-T and GOES-U.

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Once GOES-17 is declared operational, expected
in late 2018, it will reside in a geostationary

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position over the Pacific Ocean to provide
faster, more accurate data for tracking wildfires,

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tropical cyclones, fog and other storm systems
and hazards that threaten the western United

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States.

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It will also improve weather forecasts for
Hawaii, Alaska, Mexico, Central America and

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the Pacific Ocean, all the way to New Zealand.