A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying an advanced new weather satellite for the United States rolled out to its launch pad today (Feb. 28), and you can watch a video replay from its morning trip.
The Atlas V rocket carried the GOES-T weather satellite for NASA and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to its pad at Space Launch Complex 41 of Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for a planned launch on Tuesday (March 1). Liftoff is set for 4:38 p.m. EST (2138 GMT).
You can watch the rocket rollout in the video replay above, courtesy of the NASA Edge program, or directly from YouTube.
Video: How NOAA's GOES-T weather satellite will launch on Atlas V
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"GOES-T will help meteorologists observe and predict local weather events, including thunderstorms, tornadoes, fog, hurricanes, flash floods and other severe weather," NASA officials wrote in a mission update today.
NASA will provide a live webcast of the GOES-T launch on Tuesday starting at 4 p.m. EST (2100 GMT).
Editor's note: This story was updated at 5 p.m. EST on Feb. 28 with news that rollout had finished.
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