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KSC-99pp0500
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At Launch Pad 36A, Cape Canaveral Air Station, an encapsulated GOES-L weather satellite (top center) is prepared for mating to the a Lockheed Martin Atlas II rocket below it. The fourth of a new advanced series of geostationary weather satellites for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), GOES-L is a three-axis inertially stabilized spacecraft that will provide pictures and perform atmospheric sounding at the same time.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-99pp0500. NASA/KSC, 1999-05-06. Public domain. ID: KSC-99pp0500.
