A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 401 rocket will launch the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS)-2 civilian polar-orbiting weather satellite for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA and NASA’s Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID). Liftoff will occur from Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
Launch Date and Time: Nov. 10 at 1:25 a.m. PST (4:25 a.m. EST; 0925 UTC)
Go Atlas! Go Centaur! Go JPSS-2! Go LOFTID!