Welcome to the GOES-U Launch Discussion and Updates Thread! First Falcon Heavy launch of the year!

Scheduled for (UTC) 2024-06-25 21:26
Scheduled for (local) 2024-06-25 17:26 (EDT)
Launch site LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
Launch vehicle Falcon Heavy
Center 1087-1 (expended)
Booster 1072-1 (RTLS, LZ1)
Booster 1086-1 (RTLS, LZ2)
Customer NASA / NOAA
Payload GOES-U
Mission success criteria Successful deployment of payload into Geostationary Transfer Orbit

Livestreams

Stream Link
NASA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4HH_fL7QVk
Space Affairs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSRo1H73O9g
Spaceflight Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SBxb5-S8HM
NASASpaceflight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kMlfbo1lts
The Launch Pad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTDhfuRxo7U
Everyday Astronaut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=227WGGFeDoc
SpaceX
The Space Devs

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 1st Falcon Heavy launch this year, 10th overall

☑️ 13th launch from LC-39A this year

☑️ 32 days, 18:31:00 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 65th SpaceX launch this year, 365th overall (excluding Starship tests)

☑️ 67th SpaceX launch this year, 378th overall (including Starship tests)

☑️ 280th consecutive successful Falcon 9 / FH launch (excluding Amos-6) (if successful)

☑️ 325th & 326th Falcon Family Booster landings, 334th and 335th Falcon recovery attempt

Payload info: GOES-U

NextSpaceflight:

GOES-U will provide advanced imagery and atmospheric measurements of Earth’s weather, oceans, and environment, as well as real-time mapping of total lightning activity and improved monitoring of solar activity and space weather.

Resources and articles:

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  • feastEnglish
    8·
    5 months ago

    After not watching Falcon 9 launches for a while and only paying attention to Starship development, it’s weird to look at this livecast and think that Falcon Heavy looks kind of small

    • threelonmusketeersOPMEnglish
      7·
      5 months ago

      Haha, yeah. Just the Super Heavy booster is about the same height as an entire Falcon full stack. The wide shot of 39-A with both the Falcon and Starship towers in view really puts the scale in perspective.

      • Morphit @feddit.ukEnglish
        5·
        5 months ago

        Starship is about 80% the width of Falcon Heavy - but all the way around and practically all the way up!

  • threelonmusketeersOPMEnglish
    5·
    5 months ago

    SES-2, SECO-2, and norminal transfer orbit.

    SES-3 scheduled for T+04:21:18.

    Interesting that they are doing a third burn of Stage 2. They mentioned that Falcon Heavy had some additional performance which would extend the lifetime of the satellite. Is this a partial GEO circularization burn?

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    2·
    5 months ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    BECO Booster Engine Cut-Off
    GEO Geostationary Earth Orbit (35786km)
    LOX Liquid Oxygen
    MECO Main Engine Cut-Off
    ~ MainEngineCutOff podcast
    RP-1 Rocket Propellant 1 (enhanced kerosene)
    SECO Second-stage Engine Cut-Off
    SES Formerly Société Européenne des Satellites, comsat operator
    ~ Second-stage Engine Start

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  • threelonmusketeersOPMEnglish
    2·
    5 months ago

    SpaceX and NASA have polled go for propellant load.

    Mission Control Audio: “Falcon Heavy tanks are venting for the start of prop load.”

    Mission Control Audio: “Launch auto sequence has started.”