The shipping container is lifted off the GOES-R spacecraft inside the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Florida near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. GOES-R will be the first satellite in a series of next-generation NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites. The spacecraft is to launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket in November.
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KSC-20160823-PH_SWW01_0018
Date Created
August 23, 2016
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Photographer
NASA/Bill White
Location
Astrotech
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