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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Avionics shelf flatness and fillet gap measurements are conducted on the wing of a Pegasus rocket in Building 1555 at Vandenberg AFB. The testing was performed by workers from Advanced Digital Measuring Works using an API laser tracker. The Pegasus will launch NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer Mission, or IBEX, satellite from Kwajalein Island in the Marshall Islands, South Pacific. IBEX will make the first map of the boundary between the solar system and interstellar space. IBEX is the first mission designed to detect the edge of the solar system. As the solar wind from the sun flows out beyond Pluto, it collides with the material between the stars, forming a shock front. IBEX contains two neutral atom imagers designed to detect particles from the termination shock at the boundary between the solar system and interstellar space. IBEX also will study galactic cosmic rays, energetic particles from beyond the solar system that pose a health and safety hazard for humans exploring beyond Earth orbit. IBEX will make these observations from a highly elliptical orbit that takes it beyond the interference of the Earth's magnetosphere. IBEX is targeted for launch in October 2008. Photo credit: NASA/Randy Beaudoin KSC-08pd2042
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A loaded cargo sled pulls away from the ramp of a C-141C Starlifter from Christchurch, New Zealand. It is parked on the Ross Ice Shelf near McMurdo Station in Antarctica, during Operation DEEP FREEZE 2001
A 10K-AT all terrain forklift pulls a loaded cargo sled away from the ramp of a C-141C Starlifter from Christchurch, New Zealand. It is parked on the Ross Ice Shelf near McMurdo Station in Antarctica, during Operation DEEP FREEZE 2001
A 10K-AT all terrain forklift pulls a cargo sled and its load away from the ramp of a C-141C Starlifter from Christchurch, New Zealand. The aircraft is parked on the Ross Ice Shelf near McMurdo Station in Antarctica, during Operation DEEP FREEZE 2001
A 10K-AT all terrain forklift pushes (bumps) a cargo sled into position at the ramp of a C-141C Starlifter (foreground shadow) from Christchurch, New Zealand. It is parked on the Ross Ice Shelf near McMurdo Station in Antarctica, during Operation DEEP FREEZE 2001
Crewmembers pose in their extreme cold weather gear in front of a C-141C Starlifter parked on the the Ross Ice Shelf, near McMurdo Station, in Antarctica. The crew delivered a cargo load from Christchurch, New Zealand, during Operation DEEP FREEZE 2001
Civilian cargo personnel tie down cargo pallets loaded onto a transportation truck. The load arrived in a C-141C Starlifter from Christchurch, New Zealand, and headed for McMurdo Station in Antarctica, during Operation DEEP FREEZE 2001
A 10K-AT all terrain forklift offloads a cargo pallet from a C-141C Starlifter just in from Christchurch, New Zealand. The aircraft is parked on the Ross Ice Shelf, near McMurdo Station, in Antarctica, during Operation DEEP FREEZE 2001
Civilian cargo workers remove chunks of snow dropped from a cargo sled as it is pulled away from the ramp of a C-141C Starlifter. It is parked on the Ross Ice Shelf near McMurdo Station in Antarctica, during Operation DEEP FREEZE 2001
As the 10K-AT forklift remove a pallet of cargo, the sun shines bright over the C-141C Starlifter, March Air Reserve Base, California, from Christchurch, New Zealand. It is parked on the Ross Ice Shelf for cargo offload near McMurdo Station in Antarctica, during Operation DEEP FREEZE 2001
Loadmasters and civilian cargo workers guide a load onto a cargo sled at the ramp of a C-141C Starlifter from Christchurch, New Zealand. It is parked on the Ross Ice Shelf near McMurdo Station in Antarctica, during Operation DEEP FREEZE 2001
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Subject Operation/Series: DEEP FREEZE 2001
Base: Mcmurdo Station
Country: Antarctica (ATA)
Scene Major Command Shown: AMC
Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Kim M. Allain, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
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16/10/2001
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