[Phillip Beall]

All,

Doing some trip prep this afternoon I had Weather Nation on the TV and saw that they were talking about a rocket launched satellite going today. Space.com – “GOES-U, the fourth and final member of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) GOES-R series of next-gen weather satellites…” will be launching on one of Elon Musk’s SpaceX Falcon Heavy rockets from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. I watched the launch, I can never see too many of them and recalled that I once requested a “present position hold” from ATC. I did it because I was flying in the vicinity of a night space shuttle launch. We got the requested hold and flew in an racetrack shaped orbit and got to see it from like 35,000′. Trust me, it was cool. From light off to climbing out of site, we and our passengers got to see the whole thing. LOL Anyway, details on this fantastic new weather satellite is available at Powerful GOES-U weather satellite cleared for launch today on SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.

Enjoy,

Phillip

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