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After a careful ride on an 18-wheeler truck from Lockheed Martin in Littleton, Colorado, crews prepare to load NOAA's GOES-T satellite into a U.S. Air Force C-5 Super Galaxy cargo jet at Buckley Space Force Base in Aurora on Nov. 9, 2021.

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English: After a careful ride on an 18-wheeler truck from Lockheed Martin in Littleton, Colorado, crews prepare to load NOAA's GOES-T satellite into a U.S. Air Force C-5 Super Galaxy cargo jet at Buckley Space Force Base in Aurora on Nov. 9, 2021.

GOES-T, the third in the GOES-R Series of advanced weather observing and environmental monitoring satellites, arrived in Florida on Nov. 10, 2021, to begin final preparations for an early 2022 launch.

Shipping a satellite is no small feat. GOES-T is the size of a small school bus and weighs over 6,000 pounds! The spacecraft team at Lockheed Martin, where GOES-T was built, carefully packed the satellite in a special shipping container that protected its sensitive instruments and functioned as a miniature cleanroom during transport. GOES-T was then driven to Buckley Space Force Base in Aurora, Colorado, where it hitched a ride aboard a C-5 Super Galaxy aircraft to Kennedy Space Center.

Learn more: go.usa.gov/xeWCD

Photo Credit: NASA/Elizabeth Wilk
Date Taken on 9 November 2021, 10:23:43
Source Loading GOES-T for Shipment
Author NOAASatellites
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GOES-T Road to Launch
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satellites; goest; goesr; c5supergalaxy; futuregoes18; roadtolaunch; weathersatellites; buckleyspaceforcebase; countdowntolaunch; lockheedmartin; noaa; nasa; noaasatellites; goesrseries

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by NOAASatellites at https://flickr.com/photos/125201706@N06/51670442669. It was reviewed on 20 February 2024 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the Public Domain Mark.

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