The GOES-T satellite configuration that entered testing was not the same as the configuration that will launch and fly on orbit.
GOES-T will replace GOES-17 at the GOES-West orbital location in geostationary orbit at 137 degrees west.
GOES-T is scheduled to launch on 2022-03-01 on an Atlas 5 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
After the Atlas Centaur drops off GOES-T in geostationary transfer orbit, the satellite will spend about three weeks moving to geostationary orbit.
NOAA is accelerating GOES-T’s move to operational West position so National Weather Service meteorologists can obtain Advanced Baseline Imager data sooner to help backfill data lost by GOES-17 during warm periods.
The GOES-T satellite is scheduled to launch 2022-03-01 on a United Launch Alliance Atlas Centaur rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
United Launch Alliance scheduled its next launch as the GOES-T mission for NASA on 2022-03-01 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
The third Advanced Baseline Imager is onboard NOAA’s GOES-T satellite scheduled to launch on 2022-03-01, from Cape Canaveral.
The GOES-T spacecraft propulsion core module was delivered to Lockheed Martin in Littleton, Colorado in July 2017 for spacecraft integration.
NOAA and NASA are targeting 2022-02-16 for the launch of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite T (GOES-T) mission.
After completing checkout of its instruments and systems, GOES-T will enter service as GOES West and operate in tandem with GOES-16 in the GOES East position.
GOES-T will be renamed GOES-18 once it reaches geostationary orbit.
The GOES-T launch has a two-hour launch window that will open at 4:40 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
GOES-T will launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket.
GOES-T is scheduled to launch in January 2022 and will replace GOES-17 because of problems with GOES-17’s Advanced Baseline Imager.
The value of the GOES-U contract, $152.5 million, is slightly less than the $165,700,000 award made to United Launch Alliance in December 2019 for the GOES-T launch.
GOES-T is scheduled to launch at the beginning of 2022.
GOES-T is scheduled to launch on 2021-12-07 from Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC‑41) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
NOAA announced on 2021-06-25 plans to move the agency’s GOES-T satellite into an operational role as soon as possible.
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite GOES-T will replace GOES-17 in the GOES West orbital position because GOES-17’s Advanced Baseline Imager experienced problems.