Image: Delta IV Medium 4,2+ launch with GOES-N
Description: KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. – Spewing fire and smoke, the Boeing Delta IV rocket roars off the launch pad to lift the GOES-N satellite on top into space. Liftoff from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station was on time at 6:11 p.m. EDT. GOES-N is the latest in the Earth-monitoring series of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites developed by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. By maintaining a stationary orbit, hovering over one position on the Earth's surface, GOES will be able to provide a constant vigil for the atmospheric "triggers" for severe weather conditions such as tornadoes, flash floods, hail storms and hurricanes.
Title: Delta IV Medium 4,2+ launch with GOES-N
Credit: http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=28763
Author: NASA/Ken Thornsley
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