The second stage of a Delta IV is suspended over its transporter in the Horizontal Integration Facility at Launch Complex 37.

The second stage of a Delta IV is suspended over its transporter in the Horizontal Integration Facility at Launch Complex 37 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

This United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket is the vehicle slated to launch GOES-P, the latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite developed by NASA for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA. Processing of the Delta IV is on track for launch, targeted for March 4, 2010. For information on GOES-P, visit http://goespoes.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/spacecraft/n_p_spacecraft.html. Photo credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller