Beautiful Falcon Heavy rocket launches from Cape Canaveral

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifted off June 25 carrying the final spacecraft in a series of geostationary weather satellites. The Falcon Heavy lifted off from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A at 5:26 p.m. Eastern time.
The rocket’s payload, the GOES-U weather satellite, successfully deployed from the Falcon Heavy’s second stage four and a half hours after liftoff, after the stage completed a sequence of three burns to place the satellite into a geostationary transfer orbit.
GOES-U is the fourth and final satellite in the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) R series of satellites built by Lockheed Martin for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The spacecraft, which will be renamed GOES-19 once in geostationary orbit, will undergo on-orbit commissioning and then be moved to 75 degrees east in GEO and take over from GOES-16 as the operational GOES-East satellite.
The satellite carries a suite of earth and space science instruments similar to the three previous GOES-R satellites but also includes the Compact Coronagraph (CCOR) instrument for observing the sun. CCOR will monitor the solar corona for flares and coronal mass ejections that affect space weather, taking over for the nearly 30-year-old Solar and Heliospheric Observatory spacecraft.