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Team members monitor progress as an overhead crane lowers the GOES-R spacecraft toward its work stand inside the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Florida near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

GOES-R will be the first satellite in a series of next-generation NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites. The spacecraft is to launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket in November.