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  • SRB Ignition Enabled

    GOES-R Spacecraft With Earth Reflection

    The launch team is placing the controls in launch position. The solid-fueled boosters have been enabled for liftoff. This Atlas V will use four SRBs to help lift GOES-R into space.

  • New Launch Time: 6:42 P.M. EST

    GOES-R Spacecraft With Earth Reflection

    GOES-R is to launch tonight at 6:42 p.m. The launch teams will conduct polls to confirm readiness to launch. The final poll will take place in about 10 minutes.

  • GOES-R Spacecraft on Internal Power

    Goes-rTight of Payload

    The GOES-R team has been given a ‘go' to place the spacecraft on internal power. The launch teams are working toward launching at 6:42 p.m., the end of tonight's launch window. The Air Force Eastern Range continues to work an issue.

  • Range Issue in Work

    GOES-R-Night Sky Pad Shot with Water Reflection

    The Eastern Range that oversees launches from Florida is working an issue. Tonight's launch window extends until 6:42 p.m. EST.

  • Launch No Earlier Than 6:12 P.M.

    GOES-R Spacecraft With Earth Reflection

    The launch team continues to work through a launch vehicle issue. The current launch time is no earlier than 6:12 p.m. EST. The window is open until 6:42 p.m. EST.

  • Liftoff Delayed – Countdown in Hold

    GOES-R Spacecraft With Earth Reflection

    With the countdown in a planned hold, the launch teams are working a launch vehicle issue that will prevent the launch from taking pace at the opening of today's window. The team has not set a new launch time yet but is working in 5-minute increments. Today's launch window extends until 6:42 p.m. EST.

  • Weather Briefing: Perfect Conditions Continue

    GOES-R Spacecraft With Earth Reflection

    The nation's newest weather satellite will liftoff in ideal conditions, reported Clay Finn, launch weather officer for NOAA's GOES-R mission. The forecast remains 100 percent chance of acceptable conditions. The launch teams continue their procedures this evening as we tick closer to liftoff at 5:42 p.m. EST.

  • The Color Change of the Rocket

    GOES-R-Fueling-Venting-Wide

    Observant watchers may have noted that the Atlas V first stage now appears white. That's because frost formed on the outside of the rocket as its tanks filled with cryogenic oxygen. It's the same process that causes frost to form on a glass holding a chilled liquid. Speaking of the Atlas, the oxygen tank is …

  • New Trio Arrives to Join Expedition 50 Crew

    NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian space agency Roscosmos and Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency) have docked to the International Space Station. After orbiting the Earth for approximately two days, their Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft docked with the space station’s Rassvet module at 4:58 p.m. EST. When hatches between the Soyuz …