NOAA’s GOES-S is encapsulated in its payload fairing inside Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Florida, and transported to the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. It was hoisted up and secured to the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. GOES-S, the next in a series of advanced weather satellites, launched aboard the Atlas V on March 1, 2018.