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i'm sylvia with nasa goddard television

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and i'm here at cape canaveral's air

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force station this behind me is

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launchpad 37. so andre what is going on

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here in a few days well something really

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exciting okay something that nasa people

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really love to do and that's launch

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satellites i mean i can't think of

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anything more exciting for us than to do

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this

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satellite get in orbit and get it

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checked out the goals mission is a

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continuous mission and this is a spare

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satellite so can you explain a little

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bit more about that well since we're an

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operational mission and everybody here

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knows what the importance is of a

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weather satellite everybody's seeing the

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big hurricanes and how important it is

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to have a satellite in orbit now the us

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has two satellites in in orbit that

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cover the united states but if one of

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those were to fail

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then we need to have another one ready

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to go put it right in place and so we're

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launching this satellite into a spare

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slot and so when one of the others older

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satellites runs out of fuel we replace

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it with the gozo satellite what are some

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of the factors that could cause delay

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for the gold 0 launch

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well when you build a satellite and you

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build a launch vehicle there are

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millions literally millions of parts and

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pieces that make up those satellites and

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those launch vehicles and on the day of

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launch there could be any kind of

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technical problem that could come up so

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all those things need to be assessed to

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make sure that we actually achieve orbit

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the other things that we have to be

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concerned about is weather

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okay we have any time of the day here

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there could be thunderstorms and if that

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large winds or lightning and things like

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that is not something type of

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environment that we want to actually

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launch into so we would stand down and

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wait for that and that could cause a

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delay

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and what does the forecast look like for

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the gozo alone well unfortunately we're

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calling for thunderstorms but we're

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hoping we have an hour window with that

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hour window we'll find an opportunity to

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launch this satellite and get it up

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there in orbit so if you were to tell

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someone why this mission is so important

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what would you say

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i would say you already know it

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okay every night when you go home you

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turn on the tv and you look at the

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weather channel you're seeing the data

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that's coming from these weather

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satellites that we launched and so it

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impacts your everyday life it must be

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really exciting time for you how do you

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feel about it so close to long it's

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great let me tell you we spent years and

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years on this mission building these

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satellites testing it developing it

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and to see it all come here in a

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culmination into this major event uh

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it's very satisfying why is it that

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you're picking cape canaveral for gozo

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cape canaveral makes the most sense for

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goes because this is where the majority

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of the launch vehicles are so launching

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from this cape canaveral air force

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station actually provides us an

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advantage in a savings and propellant

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that would actually take in cost to get

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the spacecraft to orbit

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so we take advantage of that

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thank you andre

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so it looks like the gold's mission is

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critical for predicting severe weather

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for more information about the mission

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for some cool animations and video visit

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www.nasa.gov