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KSC-00pp0620
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The Atlas II/Centaur rocket carrying the NASA/NOAA weather satellite GOES-L casts a luminescent glow as it starts to clear the tower at Pad A, Complex 36, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Liftoff occurred at 3:07 a.m. EDT. The primary objective of the GOES-L is to provide a full capability satellite in an on-orbit storage condition, in order to assure NOAA continuity in services from a two-satellite constellation. Launch services are being provided by the 45th Space Wing.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-00pp0620. NASA/KSC, 2000-05-03. Public domain. ID: KSC-00pp0620.
