High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! GOES 15, previously known as GOES-P, is an American weather satellite, which will form part of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite system operated by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The spacecraft was constructed by Boeing, and is the last of three GOES saetllites to be based on the BSS-601 bus. The other BSS-601 GOES satellites; GOES 13 and GOES 14 were launched in May 2006 and June 2009 respectively. It total it was the sixteenth GOES satellite to be launched. GOES 15 was launched atop a Delta IV-M+ rocket flying from Space Launch Complex 37B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The launch occurred at 23:57 GMT on 4 March, forty minutes into a sixty-minute launch window. Upon reaching geostationary orbit on 16 March, it was redesignated GOES 15. It is currently undergoing a series of post-launch tests before being placed into storage as a backup to await the failure of an operational GOES satellite.

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