In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers at left check instruments during a lighting test on the solar panels of the <a href="http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/captions/subjects/stardust.htm"> Stardust</a>spacecraft. Stardust is scheduled to be launched aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket from Launch Pad 17A, Cape Canaveral Air Station, on Feb. 6, 1999, for a rendezvous with the comet Wild 2 in January 2004. Stardust will use a substance called aerogel to capture comet particles flying off the nucleus of the comet, plus collect interstellar dust for later analysis. The collected samples will return to Earth in a sample return capsule (its white cap is seen on the near end of the spacecraft) to be jettisoned as it swings by Earth in January 2006 KSC-99pc46
Zusammenfassung
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers at left check instruments during a lighting test on the solar panels of the kscpao/captions/subjects/stardust.htm"> Stardust</a>spacecraft. Stardust is scheduled to be launched aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket from Launch Pad 17A, Cape Canaveral Air Station, on Feb. 6, 1999, for a rendezvous with the comet Wild 2 in January 2004. Stardust will use a substance called aerogel to capture comet particles flying off the nucleus of the comet, plus collect interstellar dust for later analysis. The collected samples will return to Earth in a sample return capsule (its white cap is seen on the near end of the spacecraft) to be jettisoned as it swings by Earth in January 2006
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Kennedy Raumfahrtszentrum
Nutzlast
Arbeitskräfte
prüfen
Instrumente
check instruments
Prüfung
Platten
www pao
kscpao
Bildunterschriften
Themen
Sternenstaub
Delta
Rakete
Delta-II-Rakete
Startrampe
Bahnhof
Cape Canaveral Air Station
Rendezvous
Komet
wild
Komet wild
Substanz
Aerogel
Partikel
Kometenpartikel
Kern
Staub
Analyse
Proben
Erde
Kapsel
Probenrückgabekapsel
Deckel
Raumfahrzeug
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Cape Canaveral
Erde aus dem Weltraum
NASA
Datum
11/01/1999
Lage
Cape Canaveral, FL
Quelle
NASA
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