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The Atlas II rocket roars into the sky with the GOES-M satellite on top.
NASA
Washington, DC, United States
The Atlas II rocket roars into the sky with the GOES-M satellite on top. Liftoff occurred at 3:23:01 a.m. EDT from Launch Complex 36-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. GOES-M is the last in the current series of advanced geostationary weather satellites in service. GOES-M has a new instrument not on earlier spacecraft, a Solar X-ray Imager, which can be used in forecasting space weather and the effects of solar storms
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- Title: The Atlas II rocket roars into the sky with the GOES-M satellite on top.
- Location: Kennedy Space Center, FL
- Owner: KSC
- Album: cbabir
- About Title: To help you find images you’re searching for, previously untitled images have been labelled automatically based on their description
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