GOES-U

GOES-U is the 4th and final satellite in the GOES-R series, NOAA's most advanced generation of geostationary weather satellites. In addition to the standard GOES-R instrument suite - including the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) and Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) - it carries NOAA's first compact coronagraph instrument (CCOR-1), designed to image the sun's corona and monitor space weather. The satellite was renamed GOES-19 after reaching geostationary orbit. GeoXO will serve as the follow-on program to the GOES-R series.

NASA awarded SpaceX a $152.5 million contract in September 2021 to provide launch services. 4th time a second stage featured Falcon medium coast mission-extension kit.