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The GOES-N Photo Library
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA.
PHOTO CREDIT: NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. At KSC’s Shuttle Landing Facility, workers
offload the latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
(GOES-N) developed for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA) from the USAF C17 military cargo aircraft that delivered it.
PHOTO CREDIT: NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. At KSC’s Shuttle Landing Facility,
workers
offload the latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
(GOES-N) developed for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA) from the USAF C17 military cargo aircraft that delivered it.
PHOTO CREDIT: NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. At KSC’s Shuttle Landing Facility, the
latest
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-N) developed for
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is lifted after
a USAF C-17 flight from Los Angeles, CA so it can be placed on a
transporter. The satellite is being transported to Astrotech in Titusville,
Florida, where final testing of the imaging system, instrumentation,
communications and power systems will be performed. GOES-N is targeted to
launch June 23, 2005, on a Boeing expendable launch vehicle Delta IV (4,2).
Once in orbit GOES-N will be designated GOES-13 and will complete checkout
and be placed in on-orbit storage as a replacement for an older GOES satellite.
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