NASA launches next-generation GOES-T satellite to track hazardous weather in western United States

The US space agency, NASA has successfully launched next-generation weather satellites for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-T) was launched on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. It has been confirmed that the spacecraft’s solar arrays were successfully placed, and the spacecraft is now operating on its power.

The satellite is named as GOES-T.  Once the satellite gets positioned in its geostationary orbit it will be renamed from GOES-T to GOES-18. GOES-T will be used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to forecast weather and hazardous environmental conditions in the Western Hemisphere.