GOES-O Moves Ever Closer to Launch with Transport to the Delta IV Launch Pad

Launch target:
2009, June 26, 0314 PDT, Friday
2009, June 26, 0614 EDT, Friday
2009, June 26, 1014 UTC, Friday

15 days to launch

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GOES-O is an American weather satellite, which is part of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite system. It is currently scheduled to be launched aboard a Delta IV-M+(4,2) rocket on 12 May 2009, from Launch Complex 37B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

The spacecraft was built by Boeing, and is based on the BSS-601 bus. It is the second of three GOES satellites to use the BSS-601 bus, after GOES-13, which was launched in May 2006.

The Satelite is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral on June 26 2009.

Image above: The GOES-O spacecraft, encapsulated in the Delta IV fairing, was rolled out of the Astrotech Facility, Titusville, Fla. and transported to the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) on June 7, 2009. Photo credit: NASA

Image above: Technicians enclose the payload fairing over the GOES-O spacecraft at the Astrotech facility in Titusville, Fla. The fairing is a nose cone that protects the satellite from atmospheric heating as the Delta IV rocket launches into space. Photo credit: NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis
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