In a post it made today, NASA showed how it put giant satellites inside rockets. In addition, these images, which we will not see very often, are said to belong to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) GOES-T weather satellite, which is expected to be launched on March 1 from Cape Canaveral in Florida. Here are those images…
NASA shared GOES-T weather satellite images
The 6,000-pound GOES-T weather satellite built by Lockheed Martin is about 16 miles from the launch site, Titusville, Florida. It is placed inside its outer casing at the Astrotech Space Operations facility in .
The outer fairing will be placed on top of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket on Thursday, with the satellite securely fixed inside. Then, on February 28, the entire system will be taken to the Cape Canaveral launch pad for launch the next day.
GOES-T mission manager Rex Engelhardt said about NASA satellites and crews in a post on his website:
Things are getting real now. GOES-T is fully assembled and ready to launch. Next week, we’ll be running the final launch reviews and running teams on their respective consoles in preparation for event day.
GOES-T will be the third satellite in NOAA’s GOES-R series. This network will enable meteorologists to monitor and forecast local weather events that affect public safety, including thunderstorms, tornadoes, fog, hurricanes, flash floods and other severe weather events.
GOES-T will be set to provide critical data to NASA for the US West Coast, Alaska, Hawaii, Mexico, Central America and the Pacific Ocean. It will also detect and monitor environmental hazards such as forest fires and volcanic eruptions.
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