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Ref : S08692
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Mission Control (47 images)
Title : The launch team inside the blockhouse on Launch Complex 36A
Caption :
(07/23/2001) -- The launch team inside the blockhouse on Launch Complex 36-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station makes final checks before launch of the GOES-M satellite. . 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 on July 23 during a window that extends from 3:02 to 4:26 a.m. EDT
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