# @nasaartemis on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf0wKk_lUGU
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/15344245-nasaartemis-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2018-03-02T14:30:51.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA Artemis (@nasaartemis) — https://gondola.cc/nasaartemis

## Caption

LIFTOFF! NASA successfully launched the second in a series of next-generation weather satellites for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) at 5:02 p.m. EST Thursday.

NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S) lifted off on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

GOES-S mission managers confirmed at 8:58 p.m. the spacecraft’s solar arrays successfully deployed and the spacecraft was operating on its own power.

The satellite will provide faster, more accurate and more detailed data, in near real-time, to track storm systems, lightning, wildfires, coastal fog and other hazards that affect the western United States. 
Credit: NASA

#nasa #launchservices #goess #noaa #amazing #rocket #liftoff #atlasv #ula

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launchservices, nasa, goess, ula, rocket, noaa, amazing, atlasv, liftoff

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