GOES-N Weather Satellite Finally Launched
A Boeing Delta 4 rocket with a weather satellite payload lifts off from Launch Complex 37B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Wednesday.
Image source: John Raoux / AP / MSNBC
Image source: John Raoux / AP / MSNBC
An AP newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:
After months of delay, NASA on Wednesday launched a next-generation weather satellite that will allow forecasters to better pinpoint severe storms and investigate world climate change.More here.
The GOES-N satellite took off at 6:11 p.m. ET on a Boeing Delta 4 rocket from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The last time a Delta 4 rocket flew, a test flight of the rocket's heavy-lift model in December 2004, it failed to put a dummy satellite into its intended orbit.
posted by Fergie @ 5/24/2006 05:55:00 PM
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