| GOES-N: Press site vantage point |
Posted: May 25, 2006
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
From the press viewing spot along the NASA Causeway southwest of Complex 37, watch the Delta 4 rocket lift off with the GOES-N spacecraft in our Spaceflight Now wide-screen video. |  |
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| GOES-N: The full launch experience |
Posted: May 24, 2006
Duration: 17 min 53 sec
This long-length movie captures the thrill of the Delta 4 launch carrying GOES-N. As the countdown resumes from the T-minus 5 minute hold, watch as the Boeing launch team readies the rocket for liftoff. The video takes you through the arrival in orbit when the second stage engine completes its initial firing more than 12 minutes into flight. |  |
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| GOES-N: Liftoff aboard Delta 4 |
Posted: May 24, 2006
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
The Boeing Delta 4 rocket launches from pad 37B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station with the GOES-N spacecraft, beginning a new era in weather observing for the Americas. |  |
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| GOES-N: Pre-launch news conference |
Posted: May 23, 2006
Duration: 38 min 12 sec
Officials from NOAA, NASA, National Weather Service, Boeing and the Air Force give this pre-launch news briefing from Kennedy Space Center on May 23, the eve of liftoff for the GOES-N weather satellite aboard a Delta 4 rocket from Cape Canaveral. |  |
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| GOES-N: Hoisted atop Delta 4 rocket |
Posted: May 22, 2006
Duration: 4 min 37 sec
At Cape Canaveral's Complex 37 on April 30, the GOES-N spacecraft is hoisted into the launch pad's mobile service tower and mated to the Boeing Delta 4 rocket's upper stage in preparation for liftoff. |  |
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| GOES-N: Return to the launch pad |
Posted: May 22, 2006
Duration: 4 min 49 sec
Completing its second visit to the Astrotech facility -- this one to undergo a health check after its extended launch delay -- the GOES-N weather observatory makes its way across the Cape to the Delta 4 rocket's pad 37B on April 28. |  |
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| GOES-N: Encapsulation in nose cone |
Posted: May 22, 2006
Duration: 6 min 19 sec
The two-piece nose cone of the Boeing Delta 4 rocket is positioned around the GOES-N weather satellite at Astrotech on April 22 and 23 in a process known as encapsulation. |  |
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| GOES-N: Spacecraft attached to rocket adapter |
Posted: May 22, 2006
Duration: 5 min 54 sec
After completing its re-test health check at the Astrotech satellite processing facility, the GOES-N spacecraft is lifted onto the cone-shaped adapter that will connect the satellite and Delta 4 rocket. |  |
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| GOES-N: Returned to hangar |
Posted: March 1, 2006
Duration: 2 min 21 sec
The GOES-N weather satellite arrives at the Astrotech spacecraft processing facility near Cape Canaveral in the predawn darkness Feb. 22. Technicians will conduct a thorough examination of the satellite, something not feasible to perform on the pad, to ensure the craft is ready to fly after months of delays. |  |
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| GOES-N: Spacecraft removed from atop Boeing Delta 4 rocket |
Posted: March 1, 2006
Duration: 4 min 2 sec
After spending eight months on the launch pad, the GOES-N weather observatory was detached from its Boeing Delta 4 rocket booster at Cape Canaveral's Complex 37 on Feb. 20. The spacecraft is returning to the processing building for precautionary health checks before liftoff is attempted again. |  |
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| Delta 4 launch scrubbed again |
Posted: August 16, 2005
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
A red alarm caused by unexpected voltage readings from a second stage battery causes a hold in the second countdown to launch the GOES-N weather satellite aboard a Boeing Delta 4 rocket. |  |
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| Animated preview of Delta 4 launching GOES-N |
Posted: August 16, 2005
Duration: 2 min 49 sec
This narrated animation describes the key events of the Boeing Delta 4 rocket launch to deploy the GOES-N weather satellite into orbit. |  |
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| Delta 4 launch scrubbed |
Posted: August 15, 2005
Duration: 33 sec
Boeing mission commentator Mike Woolley announces the launch of a Delta 4 rocket carrying the GOES-N weather satellite has been scrubbed because of unusual pressure readings in second stage tanks. |  |
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| GOES-N pre-launch news briefing |
Posted: August 15, 2005
Duration: 29 min 25 sec
NOAA, NASA, Boeing and Air Force officials hold the pre-launch news conference for the Delta 4 rocket mission to deliver the GOES-N weather satellite into orbit. The briefing occurred at 8 a.m. EDT on Monday, August 15 from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. |  |
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| Delta 4 tower rollback timelapse |
Posted: August 15, 2005
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
A time-lapse video shows rollback of the mobile service tower from around the Boeing Delta 4 rocket at Complex 37 in preparation for the launch of GOES-N. |  |
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| Delta 4 / GOES-N tower rollback |
Posted: August 15, 2005
Duration: 3 min 36 sec
The 330-foot tall mobile service tower is retracted from the Boeing Delta 4 rocket at Cape Canaveral's launch pad 37B in preparation for the planned August 15 liftoff to place the GOES-N weather satellite into Earth orbit. |  |
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