WASHINGTON — Officials with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said the agency’s newest geostationary weather satellite will still launch in late June from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., despite a minor problem with the rocket that is to deliver the spacecraft to orbit.

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