NASA launches powerful weather satellite

The GOES-U weather satellite launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida after being cleared of potential storms on June 25.

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00:00Two, one.

00:08Go, go, you.

00:11Liftoff of GOES-U, NOAA's...

00:13...GOES-U.

00:24A great shot from onboard the rocket, looking down on the Earth that it is leaving.

00:31Plus two minutes and twenty-eight seconds, the side boosters are going to shut off.

00:35We'll hear that call out, and then when the center core shuts off later in flight, we'll hear that called as main engine cutoff, or MECO.

00:44Side boosters are performing...all boosters are performing normally.

00:48Everything's looking good with the twenty-seven Merlin engines.