GOES-19 (designated GOES-U prior to reaching geostationary orbit) is a weather satellite, the fourth and last of the GOES-R series of satellites operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The GOES-R series will extend the availability of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) system until 2036. The satellite is built by Lockheed Martin, based on the A2100 platform.[5][6]

Launch

The satellite was successfully launched into space atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on 25 June 2024 at 21:26 UTC (5:26 pm EDT local time at the launch site),[2] from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States. The redesign of the loop heat pipe to prevent an anomaly, as seen in GOES-17, was not expected to delay the launch as with GOES-T.[7]

GOES-19 also carries a copy of the Naval Research Laboratory's Compact CORonagraph (CCOR) instrument which, along with the CCOR planned for Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1), will allow continued monitoring of solar wind after the retirement of the NASA-ESA SOHO satellite in 2025.[8][9]

GOES-19 has a dry mass of 2,925 kg (6,449 lb) and a fueled mass of 5,000 kg (11,023 lb).[10]

References

  1. ^ "GOES-19 Post-Launch Testing and Transition to Operations". goes-r.gov. 17 June 2024. Retrieved 15 February 2025.
  2. ^ a b c Garofalo, Meredith (25 June 2024). "Powerful GOES-U weather satellite launches to orbit atop SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket". space.com.
  3. ^ "NOAA's GOES-U Reaches Geostationary Orbit, Now Designated GOES-19". NESDIS. NOAA. 8 July 2024. Retrieved 14 July 2024. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. ^ a b c d e n2yo.com. "GOES-19 (GOES-U)". Retrieved 14 July 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ "GOES-R, S, T, U Spacecraft Overview". Spaceflight101. Archived from the original on 5 June 2024. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  6. ^ Andrews, Hillary (27 March 2024). "GOES-U weather satellite to launch June 25 after leak causes delay". FOX Weather. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
  7. ^ Werner, Debra (9 January 2019). "Lockheed Martin halts work on GOES-T to wait for instrument fix". SpaceNews. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
  8. ^ Vargas, Marco (7 January 2019). "The NOAA Space Weather Follow-On Program to Ensure Continuity of CME Imagery and Solar Wind Space-Based Observations". American Meteorilogical Society 99th Annual Meeting. AMS. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  9. ^ "Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1". NESDIS. NOAA. Retrieved 24 March 2020. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  10. ^ "GOES-R Series Spacecraft Overview". GOES-R Series. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
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