GOES-R Rollout from VIF to Pad 41

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket arrives at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. In view is the upper stage and payload fairing containing the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R). The launch vehicle will send GOES-R to a geostationary position over the U.S. GOES-R is the first satellite in a series of next-generation NOAA GOES satellites.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket arrives at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. In view is the upper stage and payload fairing containing the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R). The launch vehicle will send GOES-R to a geostationary position over the U.S. GOES-R is the first satellite in a series of next-generation NOAA GOES satellites.

Photographer NASA/Ben Smegelsky
Location VIF, Pad 41
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