A vertical view of the Mobile Service Structure at Space Launch Complex 37B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Station.
The #MobileServiceStructure stacks the #Delta IV #rocket on top its #launchpad and then rolls away, while the gray Fixed Umbilical Tower remains in place and supplies the #LaunchVehicle with propellant and other consumables until liftoff.

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United Launch Alliance’s #Delta IV #rocket launches from Cape #Canaveral pad SLC-37B.
The military originally planned to build another set of Saturn I launch sites, but that vehicle’s production was stopped.
When Boeing needed a site for their new rocket, #SLC37B was chosen.
In this #landscape #photograph, it’s possible to see the white Mobile Service Structure that houses the rocket until the night before #launch, as well as the fixed umbilical tower, which provides the vehicle with fuel and other materials from the ground reflected in the #pond in the foreground.

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United Launch Alliance’s #Delta IV Heavy #rocket is beginning to climb to #orbit with its classified* payload from Space Launch Complex 37B at Cape #Canaveral Air Force Station.

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*It’s believed to be an Advanced Orion/Mentor signals intelligence satellite designated Orion-8.

Before most #rocket #launches, the press office allows #media and #photographers to the #pad to set #RemoteCameras, cameras that are triggered by sound or a timer to catch shots closer to the #rocket than a person could survive.

After the launch, the photographers collect their cameras, if they survived, and review the images.

This was taken the night before a #Delta IV Heavy launch, during remote setup.

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