KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The GOES-M satellite is moved toward the Atlas rocket in 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.
Location Kennedy Space Center, FL
Date July 6, 2001