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English: GOES-U departed Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Littleton, Colorado on Jan. 22, 2024, encased in its special shipping container onboard an 18-wheeler for transport to Buckley Space Force Base in Aurora, Colorado.
GOES-U, the last of NOAA’s advanced GOES-R series of satellites, arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 23, 2024, to begin final preparations for its upcoming launch. Shipping a satellite is no small feat. GOES-U is the size of a small school bus and weighs over 6,000 pounds! The spacecraft team at Lockheed Martin in Littleton, Colorado, where GOES-U was built, packed the satellite in a high-tech shipping container that protected its sensitive instruments and acted as a mobile clean room during transport. GOES-U was then driven to Buckley Space Force Base in Aurora, Colorado, and loaded on the C-5M Super Galaxy cargo transport that carried it to Florida. GOES-U landed at the NASA Launch and Landing Facility airstrip at Kennedy Space Center and was transported to the Astrotech Space Operations spacecraft processing facility in nearby Titusville, where it will go through a series of electrical tests to confirm it is working properly and mechanical configurations to prepare it for launch. GOES-U is scheduled to launch no earlier than April 30, 2024, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. Learn more at www.nesdis.noaa.gov/news/noaas-goes-u-arrives-florida-pre... Photo credit: NASA/Liz Wilk |
| Date | Taken on 23 January 2024, 14:49:14 |
| Source | GOES-U Departs Lockheed Martin |
| Author | NOAASatellites |
| Flickr set | GOES-U Road to Launch |
| Flickr tags | goesu; lockheedmartin; satellites; readytogoes; noaa; nasa; nasakennedyspacecenter; noaasatellites |
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