Launched GOES-S (later renamed GOES-17), the second satellite in NOAA's GOES-R weather series, providing continuous imagery and severe-weather tracking for the Western Hemisphere.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.2 T
- Flight
- 6th
- of 9 Atlas V 541 flights
- Date and time
- 1 March 2018, 22:02 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 541
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2018-022
- Launches in 2018
- 22nd of 114
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