GOES-P Launch
Spacecraft: GOES-P
Launch Vehicle: United Launch Alliance Delta IV
Launch Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 37B
Launch Date: March 4, 2010
Launch Time: 6:57 p.m. EST
The GOES-P spacecraft thunders into space atop a Delta IV rocket on March 4, 2010, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Photo credit: NASA/Kenny Allen
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GOES-P Launches!
The GOES-P satellite launched at 6:57 p.m. EST March 4 aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket from Launch Complex 37B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
GOES-P is the third and final spacecraft to be launched in the GOES-N series of geostationary environmental weather satellites.
The exciting GOES-P launch countdown milestones can be revisited at NASA's Launch Blog.
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Launch Vehicle: United Launch Alliance Delta IV
Launch Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 37B
Launch Date: March 4, 2010
Launch Time: 6:57 p.m. EST
The GOES-P spacecraft thunders into space atop a Delta IV rocket on March 4, 2010, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Photo credit: NASA/Kenny Allen› View Larger Image
GOES-P Launches!
The GOES-P satellite launched at 6:57 p.m. EST March 4 aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket from Launch Complex 37B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
GOES-P is the third and final spacecraft to be launched in the GOES-N series of geostationary environmental weather satellites.
The exciting GOES-P launch countdown milestones can be revisited at NASA's Launch Blog.
› Watch a Launch
› Launch Locations
Launch Control Center
Multimedia
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GOES-P Lifts Off Aboard Delta IV Rocket
A Delta IV rocket lifted the GOES-P spacecraft into orbit during a brilliant nighttime launch.
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Delta's Roaring Past
The first Delta flew in 1960, and the rocket family has been growing ever since.
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