SpaceX mission to launch the NOAA Jason-3 satellite scheduled to launch January 17th from Vandenberg

SpaceX has scheduled the NOAA Jason-3 satellite launch for January 17th at 10:42:18 a.m. PST from   SLC-4E, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.  Initially scheduled for March 31, 2015 the mission also missed a tentative launch date of July 22nd, and NOAA had then hoped it would make it into space on August 8.  Failure of the CRS-7 rocket scrubbed that target date, as well as a December fall back date.

The Jason-3 satellite will help NOAA monitor ocean levels, and provide data to help with hurricane intensity forecasting, surface wave forecasting for offshore operators, forecasting tides and currents for commercial shipping and ship routing, coastal forecasting for response to environmental problems like oil spills and harmful algal blooms, coastal modeling crucial for marine mammal and coral reef research, and El Niño and La Niña forecasting.

This will be the last Falcon 9.1 configuration flight, with all future missions (as well as the ORBCOMM OG2 mission this scheduled for this Sunday) using the upgraded Falcon 9 rocket, which  seems to only be called the "full thrust" Falcon 9 for now.   I would imagine a new designation, 9.2 or 9.1a or something completely different, will be announced in the near future.