page_title: Horizontal Integration Facility
section_title: HIF in the United States
hierarchical_section_title: Horizontal Integration Facility / HIF in the United States
caption_attribution_description: English: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 37 Horizontal Integration Building. Original caption: KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Two Boeing Delta IV first stages head to the Horizontal Integration Facility (upper right) at Launch Complex 37, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The rockets were shipped by barge from Decatur, Ala., to Port Canaveral and offloaded onto Elevating Platform Transporters. A Boeing Delta IV will be used for the December launching of the GOES-N weather satellite for NASA and NOAA. The GOES-N is the first in a series of three advanced weather satellites including GOES-O and GOES-P. This satellite will provide continuous monitoring necessary for intensive data analysis. It will provide a constant vigil for the atmospheric “triggers” of severe weather conditions such as tornadoes, flash floods, hail storms and hurricanes. When these conditions develop, GOES-N will be able to monitor storm development and track their movements.
context_page_description: A horizontal integration facility is a location within which the stages of a multistage rocket are brought together, before the assembled stack is rolled out to the launch pad or complex and raised into vertical position for launch.
caption: Delta first stages in front of the Horizontal Integration Facility at SLC-37.
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