Atlas IIA | GOES 12
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites were developed by NASA-Goddard and were transferred to the NOAA weather agency when operational. In addition to the usual weather imager/sounder, GOES-M carried a new solar soft X-ray imager.
Atlas II was a member of the Atlas family of launch vehicles, which evolved from the successful Atlas missile program of the 1950s. It was designed to launch payloads into low earth orbit, geosynchronous transfer orbit or geosynchronous orbit. Sixty-three launches of the Atlas II, IIA and IIAS models were carried out between 1991 and 2004; all sixty-three launches were successes, making the Atlas II the most reliable launch system in history.
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Mission Profile
GOES 12 was a Atlas IIA mission operated by Lockheed Martin that lifted off from Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA on July 23, 2001. The flight carried its payload on a planetary science mission to Supersynchronous Transfer Orbit. It was flown as part of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite program. The launch was a success.