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Rocket: Delta 2 (7925)
Payload: GPS 2R-M1
Date: Sept. 25, 2005
Window: 11:37 p.m.-12:05 a.m. EDT
Site: SLC-17A, Cape Canaveral, Florida
Satellite feed: AMC 3, Transponder 14, C-band, 87° West

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Rollback of mobile service tower at pad 17A
Posted: September 25, 2005

The mobile service gantry is retracted for launch at Cape Canaveral's pad 17A, revealing the Boeing Delta 2 rocket for its liftoff carrying the first modernized GPS 2R navigation satellite. Credit: Boeing photos by Carleton Bailie






 

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