SpaceX - Falcon Heavy - GOES-U - LC-39A - Kennedy Space Center - June 25, 2024

Launch Date: June 25, 2024
Launch Time: 5:26 p.m. EDT, 21:26 UTC, 23:26 CEST
Launch Window: 5:16 p.m. EDT to 7:16 p.m. EDT
Launch Status: Successful
Launch Target: Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO)
Mission: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) - R Series - GOES-U
Launch Contractor: NASA/NOAA
Launch Provider: SpaceX
Launcher System: Falcon Heavy
Launch Vehicles:
- Booster B1087 - 1st Flight - Expendable
- Booster B1072 - 1st Flight - Recovery Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
- Booster B1086 - 1st Flight - Recovery Landing Zone 2 (LZ-2) Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Launch Location: Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA
NASA and SpaceX are targeting Tuesday, June 25, to launch GOES-U, the fourth and final satellite in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) - R Series. The new launch date allowed time for teams to fully repair and test the Falcon Heavy core booster after a liquid oxygen leak was identified during routine new booster testing in February. NASA and SpaceX teams have resumed preparation of the GOES-U launch. GOES-U will launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NOAA oversees the GOES-R Series Program through an integrated NOAA-NASA office, managing the ground system, operating the satellites, and distributing their data to users worldwide. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center manages the acquisition of spacecraft and instruments and has also built the Magnetometer instrument for GOES-T and GOES-U. Based at Kennedy Space Center, NASA’s Launch Services Program manages the launch services of GOES missions. Lockheed Martin designs, builds, and tests the GOES-R series satellites. L3Harris Technologies provides the primary instrument, the Advanced Baseline Imager, along with the ground system, which includes the antenna system for data reception.

[@stephensfarms7165]

Awesome job SpaceX Falcon Heavy 🚀🚀🚀👍👍👍

[@RWBHere]

Missed the livestream. Watched this instead. Thanks @Space-Affairs 🙂👍

[@stuartromig9576]

The twin booster landing... gives me shivers every time I see it! 😊❤😊

[@richardbird7892]

Thanks for the coverage. Spectacular as always. Talk later. Wish I was there.

[@richardbird7892]

Thanks!

[@Space-Affairs]

The Coffee Bar of Space Affairs says thank you!

[@stuartromig9576]

Help! I'm a bug! 😅

[@Palletjack-sv7re]

Thanks. Must be a government operation, bowing to OSHA, very low volume level

[@stuartromig9576]

I concur...

[@Space-Affairs]

That is strange, it looks like that this is only on some mobile devices. Here, during the stream, and on the control system, everything went nominal, also we increased the volume after a time. On iPhones and iPads it is nominal, too. It is mostly the mission control of SpaceX which is weak some mentioned, same happens during SpaceX broadcasts. We will keep an eye on that and will increase the volume of the mission control. Probably it is an issue with the new NVIDIA driver.