United States, Sept. 24 -- BAE Systems is celebrating the successful launch of two spacecraft from Kennedy Space Center in Florida today, supporting vital NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) space weather missions.NASA's Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and NOAA's Space Weather Follow On - L1 (SWFO-L1) launched together on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on their way to Lagrange point 1, an orbit approximately 1 million miles from Earth toward the Sun.BAE Systems designed and built both spacecraft to provide scientists and forecasters with powerful new instruments. The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory will work to increase our understanding of the Sun's effects on the Earth's exosphere - the outermost layer of the atmos...