NASA EDDGE: GOES-S Live Rollout Show

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00:00 Roll out is poised to begin where the
00:04 Atlas 5 will be transporting the GOES-S
00:07 spacecraft to Space Launch Complex 41.
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00:50 rollout has begun Franklin. It's very
00:53 exciting, the weather is good, a little
00:54 windy yes but you know it's 15 months
00:57 ago we were here for the GOES-R launch.
01:00 Today getting ready rollout for GOES-S
01:03 launch tomorrow
01:04 pretty exciting. Yes right now GOES-S
01:06 will join its sibling in orbit and now
01:09 the meteorologists and people who
01:12 need this type of information will be
01:14 able to see not only from the east coast
01:18 of Africa through the middle of the
01:19 United States but from the middle of in
01:21 the United States over to New Zealand so
01:22 more coverage more high definite
01:26 definition imagery yeah you know it's
01:28 interesting it's kind of like you
01:29 mentioned siblings they're kind of like
01:31 the Wonder Twins of satellites
01:32 absolutely and coming up in 2019 and
01:35 2023 will have a GOES-U and T but
01:39 we'll talk about that a little bit later
01:41 on yeah and you know so it's interesting
01:43 because before we get into the details
01:46 of what's going on with the GOES-S
01:47 satellite we had an opportunity or
01:49 chris had an opportunity to sit down
01:51 with Sandra Smalley from NASA
01:52 headquarters to talk about the important
01:55 partnership between NASA and NOAA
01:57 especially related to these two
01:59 satellites let's check it out we're here
02:01 with Sandra Smalley the director of the
02:03 Joint Agency Satellite Division how you
02:04 doing Sandra I'm doing great how are you
02:06 today pretty good now as director what
02:08 is your role within the division okay so
02:10 my division is within the science
02:13 Mission Directorate at NASA headquarters
02:14 and we bring to bear in NASA's expertise
02:16 in building space flight and ground
02:18 systems leveraging our expertise in
02:20 science engineering program project
02:23 management so looking at GOES-S how does
02:25 your Directorate play key role in the
02:27 success of GOES-S? so for GOES-S. GOES-S
02:30 is the second in our series of geostationary satellites that we're
02:33 building on behalf of NOAA we build them,
02:36 we test them, we launch them, and then we
02:38 do the on-orbit checkout and then we
02:39 hand them over to NOAA for operations.
02:41 GOES-S is particularly exciting because
02:43 it's going to provide the second in this
02:46 revolutionary series of satellites which
02:48 has upgraded the capability for our
02:52 weather services and emergency response tremendously
02:55 from the previous series.Now I like this
02:58 partnership between NASA so does that
02:59 start with your division? So it is an
03:02 interesting partnership so when you look
03:04 at actually designing a new series of
03:08 missions that can take a couple of
03:10 decades. When you start off with an
03:11 initial concept you're developing new
03:13 technologies; you're deciding what
03:15 instruments need to be built for it and
03:17 then you you know start the whole
03:18 acquisition or procurement process.So
03:20 what NASA does is we oversee the
03:22 procurement process in support of our
03:25 partner organizations and meeting their
03:27 objectives. And then also with this GOES-R system I mean not just with GOES-S
03:31 but we have goes U and T down the
03:33 road; I mean it's such a long program is
03:35 I mean what's the challenge for you as a
03:37 director to make sure that you know not only
03:39 there's just money for those programs
03:41 down the road but that you know we we
03:42 have that operational capability over the
03:44 long haul. So it is NOAA's responsibility
03:47 to make sure that the operational
03:48 capability is in place that is their
03:50 charter.Hhowever I mean as a partner to
03:53 them we want to make sure that they have
03:56 you know good estimates. For example when
03:58 you're designing and building a system
04:00 so that they can plan out their budget
04:02 requirements and make sure that they're
04:04 laying out the plans that are necessary
04:07 to actually deliver these systems and
04:09 operate them to meet the the needs of
04:11 their organization - actually the needs of
04:12 all of us on a day to day basis. What's
04:14 the one cool part about the GOES-R
04:18 satellite system that you take away? Yeah
04:21 that is a really tough question to
04:22 answer. I don't think there is just one
04:25 cool part there are so many cool parts
04:26 about the entire system. I mean
04:29 everything from the Advanced bBaseline
04:31 Imager giving you this amazing imagery
04:33 where you can see the weather systems
04:35 develop; the global lightning mapper
04:37 where you can see the lightning as it
04:39 develops within the storms; being able to
04:41 see the whole solar instrumentation see
04:44 the solar flares and understand the in
04:47 situ type measurement so that we can
04:49 understand what kind of radiation and
04:51 all impacts might impact our spacecraft
04:52 orbiting the Earth as well as
04:54 communication systems. It's across the
04:57 board - I don't think I can pick one but
04:59 it's pretty impressive across the board.
05:03 You know Franklin it's amazing just to
05:05 think about all the different
05:07 technologies that are being employed in
05:09 these space set in these satellites that
05:12 are gonna help with weather forecasting
05:14 and emergency responding but what's
05:16 fascinating is through a partnership
05:18 with NOAA we've actually understood that
05:20 through the there are some of their
05:22 subject matter experts they're
05:25 actually developing products from this
05:26 data. they're actually the ones finding
05:28 out how to take that data and put it in
05:30 a usable form for those weather
05:32 forecasters and emergency responders.
05:34 Yeah Blair right now with the goals are
05:36 and continue with go what GOES-S there are
05:38 over 30 products right now already
05:40 available and there are many more that
05:43 are being developed that will be useful
05:45 to people all over the world.
05:47 yeah and it's it's kind of like I don't
05:49 know if there's a good analogy or not
05:50 that it's kind of like they're creating
05:51 like the the weather data app store.
05:53 Absolutely you know you know someone can
05:56 say you know I need a solution to this
05:59 problem and when it comes to weather and
06:01 prediction they just might find it in
06:03 the GOES-S satellite. Yeah and that's
06:05 what's really cool because through this
06:07 partnership where you're seeing this
06:08 kind of tandem action between the
06:10 technology and the data and how you get
06:14 it out there and put it in the hands of
06:16 people that need to use it. So we had a
06:19 chance actually to talk more about this
06:21 technology with EDG Grigsby when Chris had a
06:24 chance to sit down with with him at NASA
06:26 Goddard Space Flight Center. Let's check
06:28 it out. We're here with Ed Grigsby who is
06:30 the deputy system program director for
06:32 the GOES-R Series. How're you doing Ed? I'm doing
06:34 excellent thank you. I was doing some
0 research and you have four key areas
06:38 that I see for the GOES system. One of course
06:41 being the visible imagery and infrared
06:43 tell us what about what you're going to
06:46 be looking at with the satellites. So
06:48 you're very familiar with the GOES. GOES-R
06:51 launched in November 16 turned
06:53 into GOES-16 I think about six months
06:56 after we launched it. That's that's our
06:58 post launch test period. You've seen the
07:01 tremendous impact GOES-16 has you
07:05 watch the news every night you see those
07:07 pictures already in operations so the
07:10 ABI instrument obviously from the
07:12 previous GOES generation five times
07:15 faster
07:16 four times more resolution and three
07:18 times the spectral content which means a
07:21 whole host of products never before seen.
07:24 Right the GOES-R Series, one of the
07:25 things that really interested me and I
07:27 had a chance to interview Greg Mandt from
07:28 GOES-R when we did the show and he was
07:30 fascinated by this lightning mapping
07:33 instrument tell us a little. So GLM yeah yeah I
07:36 heard something the other day that just
07:38 astounded me. Since we launched and
07:40 started viewing the earth with GLM we've
07:43 counted over thirteen billion thirteen
07:47 billion billion? strikes on Earth. So just
07:51 like that GOES-17/GOES-S will
07:54 launch and become seventeen - it will have a
07:56 GLM identical and it's going to view the
07:58 east coast of Africa all the way to New
08:00 Zealand and Alaska will be able to see
08:03 lightning strikes. And its tremendous
08:06 potential is incredible. iI sees in cloud
08:09 and cloud to ground lightning which is a
08:12 real precursor to some of the most
08:13 severe weather. Right so the fact that
08:15 you're able to see that lightning almost
08:18 just as it's happening right I mean you
08:20 can allow those forecasters and
08:22 meteorologist to providers or early
08:24 warnings much much sooner.
08:25 Oh yeah yes yes there you know
08:27 there been some projections but it will
0 it will be incredible. That's just on the
08:34 on the looking at the earth but yeah you
08:36 have another half of the mission that's
08:37 looking behind looking at the sun. We do.
08:40 yeah tell us a bit about that. So we
08:42 have several instruments that are on a
08:44 solar pointing platform that look
08:46 directly at the sun. SUVI, SUVI takes
08:49 images of the sun and we get to see in
08:52 several wave bands what the sun's look
08:54 like what the kind of mass ejections
08:56 what kind of heavy protons are coming.
08:59 with the SEISS instrument right there's
09:00 EXIS which is extreme UV. On the end
09:04 of a boom we have a magnetometer
09:06 which is providing some of the magneto
09:09 spheric data that's required to really
09:11 tell what kind of problems we may have
09:14 with aviation or ground power. All right
09:17 so I guess you an important question now
09:19 okay okay a big important question as
09:21 you said before with GOES-16 we're getting
09:24 back a lot of great data and we're
09:25 seeing that. In fact we had a chance to
09:27 see that when we had the the recent
09:28 snowstorm
09:29 on the East Coast were able to see the GOES-16
09:31 imagery which was fascinating to see
09:34 that in real-time. What has been your
09:36 most intriguing or interesting part
09:39 about the GOES-R Series? Yeah you got
09:42 a top 5? What I have a top one.
09:44 Oh there we go. So when we're at the Cape
09:47 and we launched GOES-R you know I I I did say the GOES-R Series is going to save
09:53 lives and it does. For instance during 
09:57 hurricane Maria when it hit landfall
09:59 okay the the radar system went out. There
10:03 was no data there was no information
10:05 that emergency managers could use to
10:07 provide any type of emergency help. GOES-16
10:13 was there during hurricane Harvey they
10:16 used to GOES-16 to actually track the eye
10:19 of the storm right so there were there
10:21 were 200 people trapped during that
10:24 hurricane they used the the tracking
10:27 from GOES-16 to actually tell the
10:30 emergency managers when to go in and
10:32 rescue those 200 people. That it saves
10:34 lives. That's amazing and now we're gonna
10:36 have the benefit of the west coast
10:38 getting that.Tthat's right that feature
10:39 now that's right especially with
10:40 wildfires in California -  oh it's amazing
10:42 the the amount of you know wildfires
10:45 have devastated areas that are prone to
10:48 mudslides so the amount of rainfall the
10:51 amount of precipitation the view that
10:53 GOES-17 will provide is going to
10:55 increase their capability one hundred
10:58 percent. One thing that is incredibly
11:01 important is that we found with our
11:03 infrared imagery that we can see some of
11:07 the early initiations of wildfires even
11:10 before the 911 calls come in. That's
11:12 amazing. Yeah that's incredible.
11:13 I am joined here onset by Mike Stringer
11:18 from NOAA .Mike tell us tell me a little
11:22 bit about the instruments on the GOES-S
11:24 and how they will help to forecast
11:27 the weather coming across the Pacific
11:29 and how it will impact people on the west
11:31 coast. Good morning Franklin it's great to be
11:34 here on this day with when the
11:36 satellite's rolling out to the launch pad
11:38 and we're so excited you know the
11:40 instruments are going to help us see
11:41 clearer, faster in
11:43 with more different spectrum and putting
11:47 that different spectrum together they
11:49 can see the moisture in the atmosphere
11:51 and so looking off of the at the Pacific
11:55 they can watch these atmospheric rivers
11:57 that come in that cause flooding in
12:00 California and so they could really
12:03 watch that and see that and see it and
12:05 be able to predict that better. As well
12:08 as with the clearer images we'll be able
12:10 to see things in Alaska. One of the
12:13 things that we've noticed with GOES-16
12:15 is the ability to see ice floes in the
12:18 Hudson so now we'll be able to see ice
12:21 floes up around Alaska and then of
12:24 course we'll be able to see the Hawaiian
12:27 Islands really well and be able to get
12:29 accurate prediction for them and in
12:30 typhoons and stuff that might be coming
12:33 through that are gonna affect their
12:34 weather. That's very interesting.
12:36 Now looking at the west coast and how
12:39 weather affects people there tell me
12:43 a little bit about fog detection and
12:46 what that does for air traffic
12:47 controllers and controlling flights in
12:51 and up and down the west coast. So with
12:54 our higher temporal resolution and the
12:56 spectral resolution we can see that fog
12:59 we can see it forming and we can also
13:01 see it dissipating. One of the things
13:04 they did is in San Francisco
13:06 while 16 was in its checkout period they
13:10 were able to see the fog dissipating and
13:12 earlier release aircraft that were
13:15 being held and it saved about a hundred
13:18 thousand dollars for the airlines and be
13:21 able to get those aircraft going so
13:24 being able to see that vapor and watch
13:27 it clearly is really helping the
13:29 aviation folks. Now keeping my focus on
13:32 the west coast one of the issues that
13:35 people along the West Coast have every
13:38 year is wildfires and I know there is
13:41 smoke and fire detection on GOES-S. How
13:45 can that help
13:47 with you know saving lives and people on
13:50 the west coast? Right so again with our
13:52 our increased resolution and our
13:55 detection we're able to see the the
13:58 fires a lot of times before even 911 is
14:02 report getting calls reporting it so
14:05 we're able to see smaller fires and not
14:07 as hot a fire as with the older versions
14:10 so they're able to see that fire getting
14:12 started; get the team out there quicker
14:14 and then we're able to watch what's
14:16 going on with the wind and the flow of
14:17 the smoke to protect the firefighters.
14:20 They don't want to be on the south edge
14:22 of the fire if the winds turning and
14:24 going to blow the fire at them so this
14:27 information will be able to help them
14:28 fight the fires better. Tell me a little
14:30 bit about the instruments on GOES-S
14:33 and how they're going to be used to
14:36 develop future products for people to
14:38 use. So the ABI or the Advanced Baseline
14:42 Imager with its you know three times the
14:45 spectrum allows us to see in so many
14:48 different spectrum that we're able to
14:50 combine those spectrum together to
14:52 detect detect volcanic ash and dust and
14:56 we have a 34 products that are being
14:59 produced with the the current spacecraft
15:02 and the current data but the scientists
15:04 are continually looking at how can they
15:06 combine those spectrum in different ways
15:09 to detect different things and be able
15:11 to give you know new information to the
15:14 public for safety. Hey Mike thank you for
15:18 being on with us today we're looking for
15:20 a successful rollout of the GOES-S over
15:23 at the pad and right now we're about to
15:25 go to an interview I did with Pam
15:26 Sullivan over at the Goddard Space
15:29 Flight Center. She's going to talk about
15:31 the instruments that they developed and
15:33 put on the GOES-S satellite. I'm here at
15:35 the Goddard Space Flight Center today
15:37 talking to Pam Sullivan who's the GOES-R
15:39 Series flight project manager. Hi Pam
15:42 how you doing? I'm doing well. Exactly
15:44 what do you do as the flight project
15:46 manager? As flight project manager I'm
15:48 responsible to build the satellites and
15:50 that includes the spacecraft the
15:52 instruments. I work with the Kennedy
15:54 Space Center to get them launched and we
15:56 also have the operations team that turns
15:58 them on and gets everything working
16:00 before we
16:00 hand the satellite over to NOAA for
16:02 operation. But before you can build them
16:05 you have to know what you're going to be
16:06 building and you get that information
16:08 from NOAA. Ya know uh you know they do
16:10 the forecasts and so they collect all
16:13 their scientists and they say what
16:14 observations do you need and for example
16:17 for the GOES-R Series? They said we
16:19 need a lightning mapper - the first time
16:20 they've had that operationally in space.
16:22 So they asked us to design a lightning
16:24 mapper and for a camera like the main
16:26 camera that takes pictures of hurricanes
16:29 and all the weather on earth. They said
16:30 that needs to go way faster and needs to
16:32 have higher resolution and more spectral
16:35 channels. It needs to see in more colors
16:36 than we've had before. So they give us
16:39 those requirements and then the flight
16:40 project is responsible to go out and get
16:42 those those instruments built for them.
16:44 Now this is a big improvement over the
16:46 last series of GOES satellites. A huge
16:48 improvement yeah the instruments that
16:50 are on the GOES-R Series are the same
16:54 overall for satellites right all four of
16:57 the satellites will carry the same
16:58 instrument payload. The first one is a
17:00 huge upgrade but then it's you know it
17:03 takes a while to get that into operation
17:05 and for the forecasters to actually
17:06 understand what all these new
17:07 capabilities do for them and to fully be
17:09 able to utilize that. They also have to
17:12 tune all their tools a lot of the
17:13 software on the ground has to change as
17:14 well because we've got so much more data
17:16 and so many more capabilities so it
17:18 takes that whole process a couple of
17:20 years to catch up. As well the managing
17:22 these satellites and getting them into
17:25 orbit tell me a little bit about the
17:27 GOES-R, S, the T and U; you how they're
17:31 spaced out and how they're used. So GOES
17:33 R we launched in November 2016 that
17:35 was after a development period that
17:38 really started in 1999 give or take so a
17:41 very long period of time to get to that
17:42 first one launching in 2016. We checked
17:45 that one out we did about a six month
17:47 orbit check out and then the scientists
17:49 had another six months where they were
17:51 understanding the products and then just
17:53 recently in late 2017 that satellite got
17:56 moved over to the East Coast where it's
17:59 currently in the GOES East doing 
18:01 operational forecasting right now yes
18:03 it's doing a great job and everybody
18:04 loves it so much so that the West Coast
18:07 guys feel like they're being dissed so
18:09 we need to get them GOES-S. Once it's in
18:11 place we'll have full coverage between the east and the west satellite will
18:15 actually be able to see all the way from
18:17 like the coast of Africa all the way
18:20 across the Atlantic. Those satellites can
18:22 see the conus continental United States
18:24 and then the GOES West satellite can
18:26 actually see all the way across the
18:28 Pacific to New Zealand. So you know we'll
18:30 be able to see in the Atlantic GOES East
18:32 will see the Hurricanes that really
18:33 start off the coast of Africa and come
18:35 across the Atlantic and can hit us there.
18:37 But most of you know the weather that
18:38 affects us usually moves from west to
18:41 east so GOES West will have an important
18:42 job seeing everything that starts in the
18:44 Pacific and is moving west to east so
18:47 between the two of them we've got you
18:48 know great coverage for things that are
18:50 coming from any direction towards
18:51 towards the US. But GOES-t. GOES-T. Tell me
18:56 about that. So so that is in development
18:58 as well we've actually got all the
19:01 instruments built for that and almost
19:03 all of them have been delivered to the
19:05 spacecraft out at Lockheed in Denver and
19:07 then GOES-T we'll be getting ready to
19:09 launch that in the middle of 2020.
19:11 Assuming you know the GOES East and GOES West
19:13 satellites are still ok, GOES-T will go
19:15 up and it will actually become an
19:16 on-orbit spare. Just sitting in orbit?
19:19 Just sitting on orbit, yep. And if need be
19:21 you could go east or west? Yep. Okay and then
19:24 GOES-U is also being built because it's
19:26 convenient once we've got the team
19:27 together and they know how to build them
19:28 we'll just keep building them. GOES-U
19:31 we're not planning to launch until 2024
19:33 but it'll be built up and sitting in
19:36 storage for a couple of years and then
19:38 in 2024 we'll get that one launched.
19:40 As the flight project manager for the GOES
19:44 R Series of satellites what is that
19:46 the big payoff that you look for after
19:49 launch? One of the most rewarding moments
19:52 a very specific moment was on after we
19:55 launched GOES-R and got it to geostationary orbit there's the moment we
20:00 call first light and that's where you
20:01 open the door typically the instruments
20:04 are looking at earth and it has taken
20:06 its first picture of Earth you know and
20:08 for me that you know it's more important
20:10 than the launch because that's when you
20:12 know the satellite's working, it's doing
20:13 its job and and the way the ABI works
20:16 we get like a swath of data and it's it
20:18 just you know came down and you see the
20:19 top of the earth and you see the next
20:21 piece in the next piece and you know I
20:24 was one of maybe a dozen people that was
20:26 in the control room when that was
20:27 and everybody there knew that we were
20:30 seeing you know the dawn of a new age of
20:32 forecasting you know what this
20:33 instrument was going to be able to do
20:35 for forecasters never been done before
20:37 and we were the first ones to see it in
20:39 action. You know Franklin it has to be
20:43 a very special moment for the all these
20:46 people that have worked on GOES-S, GOES-R
20:48 when things actually become operational
20:51 and and and go live if you will but I'm
20:54 wondering as we think about all the
20:56 things that we've discussed today. What
20:58 is your favorite feature on the GOES-R
21:01 series so far from your your perspective?
21:03 Well I talked about it briefly with Mike
21:06 Stringer and it's one thing that will
21:08 impact people I think a lot on the west
21:11 coast and that is to smoke and fire
21:12 detection. Wildfires have ravaged the
21:16 west coast over the years so I think
21:18 this will really really help them a lot.
21:19 That ice floe thing was kind of
21:21 interesting as well you know I said I
21:23 never thought about the ice side. Well
21:24 for me I'm looking at the space weather
21:26 side for me what's interesting is we
21:28 learn all about these new weather
21:30 patterns to think about how the sun
21:32 might be playing a role in those weather
21:35 systems is really pretty impressive well
21:38 one thing. Franklin here we're here
21:40 for the rollout today and things are
21:41 busy out at the pad they're actually
21:44 making the rocket is making its way out
21:46 to Space Launch Complex 41 and we're
21:48 gonna go talk to our friends tiffany and
21:51 Mick Woltman to find out what's
21:53 happening with the Atlas 5 Tiffany.
21:56 That's correct where we are at complex
21:58 41 and rollout is happening right now it
22:01 is right there and what an impressive
22:03 sight like it is this is impressive to
22:06 see this Atlas 5 541 here with the GOES-
22:08 S satellite on top I mean I never get
22:11 tired of this. It's a great shot that we're
22:13 getting to see here Tiffany what I want
22:14 to know is this is your first time out
22:16 for roll it's my first time being this
22:19 close and will we have to thank ULA
22:21 for allowing NASA Edge and us this
22:23 access. I mean this is phenomenal. I my
22:26 job is so cool. Right now yeah this this
22:28 is great just to see this thing rolling
22:30 and I'm hoping everybody's gonna need to
22:31 see us roll by here as we finish up so
22:33 let's talk about rollout. Let's break
22:35 down what is happening and where we are
22:37 now with the rollout. So rollout started
22:40 about 10 a.m. this morning.
22:41 ULA came in the team came in and
22:43 reconfigured the VIF to be able to make
22:45 room for the mobile launch platform and
22:47 get the thing ready they hooked up the
22:49 environmental control system and the P
22:52 van which is the control van that feeds
22:54 back to the launch control center once
22:55 they get that out here to launch complex
22:58 41 and yeah they just a great work and
23:01 they started right on time and we're
23:03 moving you know it's about a eighteen
23:04 hundred foot trip takes about thirty
23:07 minutes. They're traveling about a half a
23:09 mile an hour with this rocket taking it
23:11 very easy but as you said earlier it's
23:13 an impressive sight to see this coming
23:15 by right now this is amazing people.
23:17 Let's talk about the configuration of
23:20 the five four one break that down what
23:22 that means.
23:23 So yeah GOES-S is using an atlas v 541
23:26 configuration and what that means in the
23:28 vehicle is the v stands for the five
23:30 meter fairing that encompasses the GOES-S satellite the four is the four solid
23:34 rocket boosters that we have on the
23:36 first stage and they give us just a
23:38 little extra oomph to escape Earth's
23:40 gravitational pull to get goes into
23:43 space and then the one is the upper
23:46 stage engine. It's a single engine
23:48 centaur it's like the high-performance
23:50 race car that pushes GOES-S into orbit a
23:53 little farther once we get into space.
23:55 This is just I'm sorry this is just
23:57 amazing to see this and hear this it's
24:00 awesome to be this close so right now
24:02 people can see the the tractor or the
24:05 train part. Yeah you're looking at the
24:07 mobile launch platform and the Atlas 5
24:09 sitting on top of that as it moves into
24:11 launch complex 41 here at the pad and
24:14 there she is.
24:15 Yeah beautiful. So let's talk about GOES
24:18 LSP's history we were there with
24:20 GOES-L and that was way back in the
24:22 early 2000s, launched on an Atlas 2A.
24:25 Fast forward we got the GOES-S on
24:28 an Atlas 541. What's the difference with
24:31 those two and how was LSP part of both
24:34 of those? So Atlas 5 is a heritage
24:36 designed vehicle it was built off of the
24:38 Atlas 2A heritage that we launched as
24:40 you said in 2000 with goes L and back
24:44 then GOES was a little lighter it was a
24:46 smaller satellite so we could launch
24:48 that with an Atlas 2A -  the lift
24:49 capability needed was perfect. with the GOES
24:52 R series or the GOES-S spacecraft
24:55 today it's a little heavier satellite
24:57 more telemetry more things that can
24:58 be done for weather so we had to go with
25:00 a bigger rocket, that lift capability to
25:02 get it into space and I think she's in
25:05 the shot let's talk about LSP's
25:09 history now this is the history our
25:11 future 2018 is a big year for us and it
25:15 starts off with GOES-S so let's break
25:17 down the next missions that we have for
25:19 the rest of this year yeah this year is
25:21 an exciting year for launch services
25:23 program here at Kennedy it is our 20th
25:25 anniversary. We started here in 1998 as a
25:28 program and 2018 is that culmination of
25:32 20 years and we got six launches in six
25:35 months using six different launch
25:37 vehicle configurations. It's great so
25:39 GOES-S is kicking that off. Our next
25:42 mission is TESS which is on a falcon 9
25:43 in a couple weeks following that we've
25:46 got the insight mission out of
25:48 Vandenberg on an Atlas vehicle again
25:50 that's very important to us because it's
25:52 an interplanetary mission off the west
25:54 coast that's that's exciting.
25:55 Then we go to icon which is launching on
25:57 our pegasus vehicle that airdrop vehicle
26:00 from the l-1011 and then parker Solar
26:02 Probe on a delta for another ULA vehicle
26:05 which is real exciting. It'll be the
26:07 first satellite to get that close to the
26:08 sun and then finalizing out the year is
26:12 icesat-2 and for a lot of us it's a
26:14 heart puller there because it's the last
26:16 delta 2 and it you know they've been a
26:19 workhorse for us at NASA. Atlas 5 is now
26:22 taking that place into that workhorse
26:24 family so we're doing great just
26:27 phenomenal year ahead and we hope you
26:28 join us for all of these missions and
26:31 with this we want to wrap it up Mick and
26:34 I are go for launch. The vehicle is here.
26:36 Back to you at studio Blair and Franklin.
26:42 Ok all right now Franklin yeah what are
26:45 the odds that right after they cut back
26:47 to us they broke out a bottle of
26:49 champagne that vehicle rolled right
26:55 through the shot during our live portion
26:57 and it did and it looked great it did
26:59 look great and I tell you one of the
27:00 interesting things is being right there
27:02 I got to tell you the jealousy factor
27:04 way high here
27:05 I wish how did Tiffany end up out there?
27:08 We should have been out there with with
27:10 Mick.
27:11 Pretty impressive spot and obviously
27:14 pretty impressive to see the rocket roll
27:16 right into place. Yeah I was out there
27:18 yesterday and I was able to see the
27:20 vertical integration facility but it was
27:23 covered the rocket was covered. They got
27:25 the money shot and I'm glad we did
27:27 because it looked great. Well I'll tell you what
27:29 Franklin it's very interesting that's
27:31 gonna wrap up our coverage but the most
27:32 important thing is after what you've
27:34 seen on the rollout tomorrow you're
27:36 going to want to tune in at 4:30 Eastern
27:38 Standard Time on NASA television and
27:40 watch the launch of GOES-S on this
27:43 beautiful Atlas 5 don't miss it tune in
27:46 tomorrow. You're watching NASA edge