ULA's Atlas V 541 launched NOAA's GOES-R (later GOES-16) weather satellite from Cape Canaveral, carrying the Advanced Baseline Imager and Geostationary Lightning Mapper for a major leap in storm-tracking and space weather monitoring.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.2 T
- Flight
- 4th
- of 9 Atlas V 541 flights
- Date and time
- 19 November 2016, 23:42 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 541
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2016-071
- Launches in 2016
- 72nd of 85
See it in orbit
Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
Object pages on Space Atlas: GOES 16
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