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NASA Launches GOES Advanced Weather Satellite

NASA has launched the new GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) known as the GEOS-0 on Saturday. The new weather satellite will serve as a spare for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who uses the satellite's to track hurricanes and other weather events.The GOES-0 was launched at Cape Canaveral using the Delta IV rocket. The new satellite will work it's way into its final orbit location by July 7th. Once the satellite is in orbit and fully operational the name of it will change to GOES-14. At this time, the satellite will be handed over to the government by Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems on July 18th.

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