Florida crews prepare to launch world’s most advanced weather satellite


Rocket launches are fast and frequent from Florida’s Space Coast.

Channel 9 recently visited the precious cargo for another satellite, which is now being prepped in Titusville.

The special cargo is the GOES-U satellite.

GOES-U is the world’s most advanced geostationary weather satellite.

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The satellite will join a network of spacecraft used to monitor everything from Atlantic hurricanes to space weather.

It’s set to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket later this month.

It will then take about a month to get into testing position, then, next April, switch places with and replace the current GOES-16 weather satellite over the eastern Americas and Atlantic.

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The primary instrument, the “Advanced Baseline Imager,” puts out about a terabyte of data each day, from 22,000 miles above Earth.

And a completely new instrument, the compact coronagraph, will look in the other direction toward the sun.

It’s a tool that can aid in predicting solar storms.

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The GOES-U satellite is set to launch on June 25.

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