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KSC-00pp0417
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The first stage of an Atlas II/Centaur rocket stands erect in the launch gantry on pad 36A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Atlas II is designed to launch payloads into low earth orbit, geosynchronous transfer orbit or geosynchronous orbit. The rocket is the launch vehicle for the NASA/Lockheed Martin GOES-L satellite, part of the NOAA National Weather Service system in weather imagery and atmospheric sounding information.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-00pp0417. NASA/KSC, 2000-03-27. Public domain. ID: KSC-00pp0417.