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The Geostationary Operational Environmental
Satellite, or GOES-R, arrived August 22 aboard

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an Air Force C-5 Galaxy transport at the Shuttle
Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center

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in Florida.

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GOES-R will be the first satellite in a series
of next-generation NOAA GOES Satellites.

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It will launch to a geostationary position
over the U.S. to provide images of storms

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and help predict weather forecasts, severe
weather outlooks, watches and warnings, lightning

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conditions and longer term forecasting.

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The satellite was offloaded and transported
to the Astrotech payload processing facility

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in Titusville, Florida, near Kennedy to begin
processing for its upcoming flight aboard

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a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from
Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral

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Air Force Station.

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The satellite was inspected, raised to the
vertical position and secured on a work stand.

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The Advanced Base Line Imager, the primary
optical instrument for GOES-R, was prepared

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and installed onto the satellite by Lockheed
Martin and Harris Corp. technicians.

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With the lights out, an optics test was performed
on the Advanced Baseline Imager on August 31

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Final launch preparations were performed prior
to fueling the satellite.

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On the same day it arrived, September 26,
the Atlas V Centaur upper stage was transported

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by truck from the Horizontal Integration Facility
to the Atlas Spaceflight Operations Center

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near Space Launch Complex 41.

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Inside Astrotech, both halves of the fairing
for GOES-R were inspected and cleaned.

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The Atlas V first stage was moved on a transport
trailer to the Vertical Integration Facility

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at Space Launch Complex 41 on October 24 and
lifted to the vertical position.

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The GOES-R satellite was enclosed in the payload
fairing at Astrotech on October 21 and transported

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to the pad Nov. 9

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Enclosed within the payload fairing, GOES-R
was lifted and placed atop the Atlas V rocket

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to await launch day.