The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-N (GOES-N), is to be launched into orbit for NASA aboard a Boeing Delta IV rocket later this month.

GOES-N, which becomes GOES-13 when it reaches orbit, is the first of three new geostationary weather and environmental satellites built for NASA by Boeing Satellite Systems. GOES-N, GOES-O and GOES-P are planned to be launched over the next five years.
GOES-N will feature a highly stable pointing platform, which will improve the performance of the Imager and Sounder that are important instruments for creating daily weather-prediction models and for hurricane forecasting. For NOAA's National Ocean Service, data from GOES-N will be valuable for oceanographic circulation models and forecasts for U.S. coastal communities.
The weather satellite will orbit at an altitude of 35,888 kilometres.

GOES-N will also provide expanded capability for the space and solar environment-monitoring instruments. Forecasts and warnings for solar disturbances will be enhanced. This will protect investments of billions of dollars by the private sector and the government for assets on the ground and in space.
As with all of NOAA's geostationary and polar-orbiting weather satellites, GOES-N will also be able to relay distress signals detected from emergency locator beacons on the ground and at sea.

The Delta IV rocket, built by Boeing Expendable Launch Systems, will be prepared for launch at Space Launch Complex 37b on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The launch is scheduled to occur on May 20th at the opening of a 60-minute launch window that occurs between 22:14 - 23:14 GMT (6:14-7:14 p.m. EDT).
The rocket will fly in the Medium+ (4,2) configuration with two solid rocket boosters.

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The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-N (GOES-N) to be launched into orbit for NASA aboard a Boeing Delta IV rocket will be the focus of a prelaunch press conference at the NASA Kennedy Space Centre Press Site.

NASA Television will carry the prelaunch press conference beginning at 17:00 GMT (1 p.m. EDT) on Tuesday, May 23.

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-N, known as GOES-N, will launch Wednesday, May 24, from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, US.
The launch window is from 22:11 to 23:11 GMT (6:11 to 7:11 p.m. EDT).
NASA TV will carry the launch live.

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I helped support the GOES I through M series for a little while. This is obviously the next generation.

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It sounds like it might be a little larger.

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T plus 4 Hours 21 minutes

Confirmation at 02:32 GMT, that the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-N (GOES-N) has been deployed from the Delta 4 rocket's upper stage.

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Boeing Hands Over GOES-N Early To NASA

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Lockheed Martin Solar X-Ray Imager on NOAA GOES-13(N) spacecraft sees first light

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Hum,
stunning image.

It seems to show Sunspot 10898 that created a large coronal mass ejection that was captured by the Soho spacecraft on the 6th of July.
This unfortunately missed the Earth and did not create auroras.

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ITT Corporation today announced the GOES-N satellite, in orbit 22,300 miles above the equator and carrying primary payload instruments produced by ITT's Space Systems Division, has transmitted its first visible and infrared (IR) images of Earth.

The GOES-N, now called GOES-13, is the latest in a series of Earth-monitoring Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites built for NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It was launched on May 24 aboard a Boeing Delta IV rocket, reached orbit on May 31, and, after a period of testing, transmitted its initial visible image on June 22 and is now providing both visible and infrared images.
The GOES array of satellites monitors the Earth's atmosphere in visible and infrared wavelengths. By measuring moisture content and tracking weather systems, they provide data to meteorologists to help improve the accuracy of forecasts.
As a contractor to NASA on the GOES-N project, ITT built the imager and sounder that acquire the high-resolution visible and infrared data, as well as temperature and moisture profiles of the atmosphere.

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