GOES-S Road to Launch Image Gallery

GOES-S launched aboard an Atlas V 541 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on March 1, 2018. GOES-S joined its sister satellite, GOES-16, in orbit as GOES-17. All images in this album are public domain. See the full album here.

An aerial high-angle view of an Atlas V rocket attached to its umbilical tower at a coastal launch pad during twilight, with the ocean visible in the background.
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying NOAA's Geostationary Operational…
A low-angle night photograph showing an Atlas V rocket illuminated by bright ground floodlights on the launch pad under a dark sky.
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying NOAA's Geostationary Operational…
A wide-angle silhouette view of an Atlas V rocket and launch pad infrastructure set against a warm orange sunset.
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying NOAA's Geostationary Operational…
A tall United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket stands next to a service tower under a dusk sky with wispy pink clouds.
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying NOAA's Geostationary Operational…
A silhouette of an Atlas V rocket standing vertically on a launch pad, backlit by a bright setting sun glowing through thin clouds.
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying NOAA's Geostationary Operational…
A large group of tour attendees with their backs to the camera listens to a presentation in front of a white NOAA jet parked outside a hangar adorned with a Space Florida patch logo.
Media had a unique opportunity to visit NOAA's Gulfstream IV (G-IV) aircraft at Kennedy Space…
A female NOAA officer in a blue flight suit demonstrates a cylindrical scientific instrument to two men outdoors on a sunny day at an airfield.
Media had a unique opportunity to visit NOAA's Gulfstream IV (G-IV) aircraft at Kennedy Space…
A man wearing sunglasses, a blue shirt, and holding a Weatherboy-branded microphone gives a television interview to a cameraman in a plaid shirt on an airfield apron, with a NOAA jet engine in the background.
Media had a unique opportunity to visit NOAA's Gulfstream IV (G-IV) aircraft at Kennedy Space…
A close-up view of the nose section of a white NOAA aircraft showing the blue NOAA emblem and full title text, looking past the wing toward an arched white hanger in the background.
Media had a unique opportunity to visit NOAA's Gulfstream IV (G-IV) aircraft at Kennedy Space…
A crowd of journalists and photographers gathered around a white and blue NOAA Gulfstream IV jet parked outside an aircraft hangar under a clear blue sky, flanked by blue and white NOAA teardrop banners.
Media had a unique opportunity to visit NOAA's Gulfstream IV (G-IV) aircraft at Kennedy Space…