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RE: GOES-P Satellite

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GOES-P Launch

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The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES-P, lifted off Thursday aboard a Delta IV rocket at 6:57 p.m. EST from Space Launch Complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite joins four other similar spacecraft to improve weather forecasting and monitoring of environmental events.
Approximately four hours and 21 minutes after liftoff, the spacecraft separated from the launch vehicle. The NASA Deep Space Network tracking site in Canberra, Western Australia, monitored the spacecraft separation.
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The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-P (GOES-P) was successfully deployed four hours, 21 minutes after launch.

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Latest NASA weather satellite launches at Cape Canaveral

The $500 million Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-P (GOES-P) lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 6:57 pm on a United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket which will carry the weather-watching satellite to its orbit around 22,000 miles above the Earth's surface.
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NASA, NOAA GOES-P PreLAUNCH: 03.03.2010

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All systems nominal

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