GOESU will provide advanced imagery and atmospheric measurements of Earth’s weather, oceans, and environment, as well as realtime mapping of total lightning activity and improved monitoring of solar activity and space weather.

Window opens on June 25th at 5:16PM EDT (21:16 UTC) and lasts for 2 hours)

Mission: Falcon Heavy launch of NOAA's GOESU
Launch location: Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, Earth.
Target orbit: High Perigee Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit
Boosters: B10721 and B10861 as side boosters, B1087 as center core.
Booster histories: All three boosters are brandnew.
Booster recovery: Side boosters will land at SpaceX's Landing Zone 1 and Landing Zone 2. Center core will be expended.
Fairing recovery: Doug
Rocket trajectory: Straight East out of the Cape
Payload mass: About 5 tonnes
Stubby nozzle: NO (thankfully)
Stats:
· SpaceX's 67th launch of the year and the 10th launch of the month.
· 330th Falcon orbital launch since Amos 6.
· Falcon Heavy's 10th flight.
· SpaceX's 85th launch from LC39A
· 41st landing on LZ1 out of 42 attempts.
· 11th landing on LZ2 out of 11 attempts
· 249th and 250th successful landing since the last failed one.


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