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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- In the airlock of processing facility 1555 at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) in California, a lifting fixture is employed to hoist NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) from its shipping container. The spacecraft arrived at VAFB Jan. 27 after a cross-country trip which began from Orbital Sciences' manufacturing plant in Dulles, Va., on Jan. 24. Next, NuSTAR will be transferred from the airlock into the processing hangar, joining the Pegasus XL rocket that is set to carry it to space. After checkout and other processing activities are complete, the spacecraft will be integrated with the Pegasus in mid-February and encapsulation in the vehicle fairing will follow. The rocket and spacecraft then will be flown on Orbital's L-1011 carrier aircraft to the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site at the Pacific Ocean's Kwajalein Atoll for launch in March. The high-energy X-ray telescope will conduct a census for black holes, map radioactive material in young supernovae remnants, and study the origins of cosmic rays and the extreme physics around collapsed stars. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/nustar. Photo credit: NASA/Randy Beaudoin, VAFB KSC-2012-1165
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Vertical Processing Facility, workers watch while an overhead crane lifts the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) off the stand. The ACS is part of the payload on the Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission, STS-109. The goal of the mission is to service the HST, replacing Solar Array 2 with Solar Array 3, replacing the Power Control Unit, removing the Faint Object Camera and installing the ACS, installing the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) Cooling System, and installing New Outer Blanket Layer insulation. Mission STS-109 is scheduled for launch no earlier than Feb. 21, 2002 KSC01PD1862
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Astrotech Space Operations, workers look over the integrated THEMIS spacecraft before spin-balance testing. THEMIS consists of five identical probes, the largest number of scientific satellites ever launched into orbit aboard a single rocket. This unique constellation of satellites will resolve the tantalizing mystery of what causes the spectacular sudden brightening of the aurora borealis and aurora australis - the fiery skies over the Earth's northern and southern polar regions. THEMIS is scheduled to launch Feb. 15 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Photo credit: NASA/George Shelton KSC-07pd0073
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, operations are under way to place the International Space Station's Node 3, named Tranquility, into a payload transportation canister for its move to Launch Pad 39A. Here, Tranquility is lifted from a workstand where its weight and center of gravity were determined. The primary payload for the space shuttle Endeavour's STS-130 mission, Tranquility is a pressurized module that will provide room for many of the space station's life support systems. Attached to one end of Tranquility is a cupola, a unique work area with six windows on its sides and one on top. The cupola resembles a circular bay window and will provide a vastly improved view of the station's exterior. The multi-directional view will allow the crew to monitor spacewalks and docking operations, as well as provide a spectacular view of Earth and other celestial objects. The module was built in Turin, Italy, by Thales Alenia Space for the European Space Agency. Launch of STS-130 is targeted for Feb. 7. For information on the STS-130 mission and crew, visit http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts130/index.html. Photo credit: NASA/Amanda Diller KSC-2010-1180
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Inside Hangar AE at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), an overhead crane raises the Swift spacecraft, wrapped in a protective cover, to vertical before being placed on a work stand. Swift is a first-of-its-kind, multi-wavelength observatory dedicated to the study of gamma-ray burst (GRB) science. Its three instruments will work together to observe GRBs and afterglows in the gamma-ray, X-ray and optical wavebands. Swift is part of NASA’s medium explorer (MIDEX) program being developed by an international collaboration. It will be launched no earlier than Oct. 7 into a low-Earth orbit on a Boeing Delta 7320 rocket from pad 17-A at CCAFS. During its nominal 2-year mission, Swift is expected to observe more than 200 bursts, which will represent the most comprehensive study of GRB afterglow to date. KSC-04pd1589
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Most of the protective covering has been removed from the lower stack, mini-stack number 1, two of the observatories for NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Observatory, or MMS, inside Building 1 D high bay at the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Florida, near Kennedy Space Center. The MMS upper stack, mini-stack number 2, is scheduled to arrive in about two weeks. MMS is a Solar Terrestrial Probes mission comprising four identically instrumented spacecraft that will use Earth’s magnetosphere as a laboratory to study the microphysics of three fundamental plasma processes: magnetic reconnection, energetic particle acceleration and turbulence. Launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is targeted for March 12, 2015. To learn more about MMS, visit http://mms.gsfc.nasa.gov. Photo credit: NASA/Dan Casper KSC-2014-4364
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Die ursprüngliche Auffindungshilfe beschrieb dies wie folgt: Beschreibung: NASA GLORY SPACECRAFT W / SOLAR ARRAY DEPLOYED + STOWED AT ORBITAL SCIENCES CLEANROOM.
NASA GLORY SPACECRAFT AT ORBITAL SCIENCES CLEANROOM
Die ursprüngliche Auffindungshilfe beschrieb dies wie folgt: Beschreibung: NASA GLORY SPACECRAFT W / SOLAR ARRAY DEPLOYED + STOWED AT ORBITAL SCIENCES CLEANROOM.
Die ursprüngliche Auffindungshilfe beschrieb dies wie folgt: Beschreibung: NASA GLORY SPACECRAFT W / SOLAR ARRAY DEPLOYED + STOWED AT ORBITAL SCIENCES CLEANROOM.
NASA GLORY SPACECRAFT AT ORBITAL SCIENCES CLEANROOM
Die ursprüngliche Auffindungshilfe beschrieb dies wie folgt: Beschreibung: NASA GLORY SPACECRAFT W / SOLAR ARRAY DEPLOYED + STOWED AT ORBITAL SCIENCES CLEANROOM.
Die ursprüngliche Auffindungshilfe beschrieb dies wie folgt: Beschreibung: NASA GLORY SPACECRAFT W / SOLAR ARRAY DEPLOYED + STOWED AT ORBITAL SCIENCES CLEANROOM.
Die ursprüngliche Auffindungshilfe beschrieb dies wie folgt: Beschreibung: NASA GLORY SPACECRAFT W / SOLAR ARRAY DEPLOYED + STOWED AT ORBITAL SCIENCES CLEANROOM.
Die ursprüngliche Auffindungshilfe beschrieb dies wie folgt: Beschreibung: NASA GLORY SPACECRAFT W / SOLAR ARRAY DEPLOYED + STOWED AT ORBITAL SCIENCES CLEANROOM.
Die ursprüngliche Auffindungshilfe beschrieb dies wie folgt: Beschreibung: NASA GLORY SPACECRAFT W / SOLAR ARRAY DEPLOYED + STOWED AT ORBITAL SCIENCES CLEANROOM.
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Fotograf: BILL HRYBYK
Datum: 15.10.2009
Beschäftigungsnummer: 2010-00067-0
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