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Happy Third Launch-iversary, GOES-R!

December 11, 2019
Digital globe with geomagnetic field data visualization applied with a mobile phone that displays the CrowdMag application on its screen

It seems like just yesterday you hurtled into space aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Once you entered geostationary orbit, you became GOES-16, replacing GOES-13 as NOAA's operational GOES East satellite.

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