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Theme : Testings - Satellites - Probes - Rockets  (2314 images)

Title : The GOESM satellite is lifted up the launch tower at Complex 36A

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(07/06/2001) -- The GOES-M satellite is lifted up the launch tower at 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. The satellite is scheduled to launch atop an Atlas rocket July 15