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Watch GOES-U Science Briefing, Prelaunch News Conference – GOES Missions [1]

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Date: 2024-06-24

NASA will provide coverage of prelaunch activities for the NOAA’s (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) GOES-U (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite U) mission.

NASA and NOAA officials will provide a mission overview during a science briefing at 11 a.m. EDT, Monday, June 24. Coverage of the briefing will stream live on NASA+, NASA Television media channel, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency’s website. Learn how to stream NASA TV through a variety of platforms including social media.

Participants include:

Charles Webb, deputy director, Joint Agency Satellite Division, NASA

Ken Graham, director, NOAA’s National Weather Service

Dan Lindsey, chief scientist, GOES-R Program, NOAA

Elsayed Talaat, director, NOAA’s Office of Space Weather Observations

Chris Wood, NOAA Hurricane Hunter pilot

NASA also will host a prelaunch news conference at 5 p.m. following the briefing. Coverage of the news conference will stream live on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency’s website.

Participants include:

Denton Gibson, launch director, Launch Services Program, NASA

Steve Volz, assistant administrator, NOAA’s Satellite and Information Service

Pam Sullivan, director, GOES-R Program, NOAA

John Gagosian, director, Joint Agency Satellite Division

Julianna Scheiman, director, NASA Science Missions, SpaceX

Brian Cizek, launch weather officer, 45th Weather Squadron, U.S. Space Force

GOES-U, the fourth and final weather-observing and environmental monitoring satellite in NOAA’s GOES-R Series, is scheduled to launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The two-hour launch window opens at 5:16 p.m., Tuesday, June 25.

Continue checking NASA’s GOES blog for additional mission milestones, or join the conversation and get updates on social media by following these accounts:

X: @NASA, @NASA_LSP, @NASAKennedy, @NOAASatellites, @NASAGoddard

Facebook: NASA, NASA LSP, NASA Kennedy, NOAA Satellites, NASA Goddard

Instagram: NASA, NASA Kennedy, NOAA Satellites

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