The next-generation U.S. weather observatories now in development for flights to geostationary orbit will be deployed by United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rockets, officials announced Thursday. The GOES R and GOES S satellites are slated for blastoff from Cape Canaveral in October 2015 and February 2017, respectively. The launcher of choice is the Atlas 5-541 configuration, the same rocket that dispatched the Mars Science Laboratory's Curiosity rover last November. The rocket will be fitted with four strap-on solid...
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