NASA Sets Coverage For GOES-O Launch on June 26

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., June 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Geostationary
Operational Environmental Satellite-O, or GOES-O, is scheduled for a liftoff
on Friday, June 26, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The
one-hour launch window extends from 6:14 to 7:14 p.m. EDT. GOES-O is the
second of three in the current series of geostationary weather and
environmental satellites.

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NASA will provide television, Internet and photo coverage of the launch
starting with a prelaunch news conference at 1 p.m. on Thursday, June 25, at
NASA's Kennedy Space Center news center.

Participants in the June 25 prelaunch news conference will be:
-- Gary Davis, director, Office of Systems Development, NOAA Satellite and
Information Service, Suitland, Md.
-- Andre Dress, GOES-O deputy project manager, Goddard Space Flight Center
-- Bart Hagemeyer, meteorologist in charge, NOAA National Weather Service
forecast office, Melbourne, Fla.
-- Ken Heinly, director, launch products and services, Boeing Launch Services,
Huntington Beach, Calif.
-- Charlie Maloney, GOES-O program manager, Boeing Space and Intelligence
Systems, Seal Beach, Calif.
-- Joel Tumbiolo, Delta IV launch weather officer, 45th Weather Squadron, Cape
Canaveral Air Force Station - Kris Walsh, Commercial Programs manager, United
Launch Alliance, Houston

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., was responsible for
designing and developing the GOES-O spacecraft and its instruments for NOAA.
Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems built GOES-O for NASA. It will be
launched into orbit for NASA aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket
procured by Boeing Launch Services.

NASA Television will carry the prelaunch news conference on the public
channel. On launch day, June 26, NASA TV countdown coverage will begin on the
media channel at 4 p.m. and will conclude 30 minutes after liftoff. For NASA
TV downlink information, schedules and links to streaming video, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

Audio only of the prelaunch news conference and the launch coverage will be
carried on the NASA "V" circuits which may be accessed by dialing
321-867-1220, -1240, -1260 and -7135. On launch day, "Mission Audio," the
launch conductor's countdown activities without NASA TV launch commentary,
will be carried on 321-867-7135 starting at noon. Launch also will be
available on local amateur VHF radio frequency 146.940 MHz heard within
Brevard County.

Prelaunch and launch day coverage of the GOES-O mission will be available on
the NASA Web site at:
http://www.nasa.gov

Live countdown coverage on NASA's launch blog begins at 4 p.m. on June 26.
Coverage features real-time updates of countdown milestones, as well as
streaming video and podcast of launch. For more information, visit

http://www.nasa.gov/goes-o

For further information about GOES-O's launch coverage, contact the Kennedy
Space Center news center at 321-867-2468.

SOURCE NASA

Katherine Trinidad, Headquarters, Washington, +1-202-358-1100,
katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov, George H. Diller, Kennedy Space Center, Fla.,
+1-321-867-2468, george.h.diller@nasa.gov, or Cynthia O'Carroll, Goddard Space
Flight Center, Md., +1-301-286-4647, cynthia.m.ocarroll@nasa.gov, all of NASA