Space
SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launches Satellite to Track Sun Storms
- NOAA, NASA GOES-U weather satellite to monitor solar storms
- Rocket launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) weather satellite GOES-U on launch pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral.
Photographer: Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/AFP via Getty Images
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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, one of the world’s most powerful operational rockets, blasted off on Tuesday carrying into orbit a new US satellite designed to help weather forecasters monitor massive solar storms.
The rocket, comprised of three modified Falcon cores, launched from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center at 5:26 p.m. local time, according to a live webcast.