A new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite is on its way to space after launching from Kennedy Space Center Wednesday morning.

Hitching a ride with two NASA research satellites, NOAA's Space Weather Follow On satellite, or SWFO-L1, is on its way into orbit.

"While we have weather satellites in geostationary orbit and in low Earth orbit, this is the start of us having a continual presence at the LaGrange Point One for space weather forecasts, said Richard Ullman, acting director of NOAA's Office of Space Weather Observations.

That special L1 point sits about a million miles away allowing the satellite and its tools to watch for potentially dangerous solar storms well before they reach Earth. Not only are there better instruments onboard, but Ullman said they'll be ab

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