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Photo gallery: Mobile service tower rolled back for launch

The 330-foot tall mobile service tower is retracted from around the Boeing Delta 4 rocket at Cape Canaveral's pad 37B in preparation for the August 15 countdown launch attempt to place the GOES-N weather satellite into Earth orbit.


Photo: Carleton Bailie for The Boeing Company
 

Photo: Carleton Bailie for The Boeing Company
 

Photo: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now
 

Photo: Carleton Bailie for The Boeing Company
 

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